Hamid Karzai: ه Fahim Dashti was a vocal voice for freedom of expression

In a message on the occasion of the assassination of the spokesman of the Popular Resistance Front, former Afghan President Hamid Karzai said that Fahim Dashti was a writer and journalist who was "a staunch critic of my government and a vocalist for freedom of expression. "His absence is a loss." The Resistance Front says Dashti was killed in a Pakistani airstrike.