It was in May 2014 that Palwasha graduated with a Master’s in Regional
and Rural Development and Planning (RRDP) from AIT’s School of
Environment, Resources and Development (SERD).
Palwasha was working with Bayan Radio station in Mazar-i-Sharif in
Afghanistan. She is the fifth Afghan and seventh journalist to be
killed in Afghanistan this year. She is the second journalist in
Mazar-i-Sharif to be killed during the past two months. Head of
Northern Journalists Association in Mazar-e-Sharif, Gulab Shah Bawar
has been quoted in the news media condemning her death. News reports
report that she was stabbed by an assassin who later fled.
Palwasha was one of the seven females from Afghanistan who have
graduated from AIT so far. Her friends remember her as a cheerful,
committed and brave lady.
Her death has been reported in the international media including the
BBC, New York Times, Huffington Post and Afghan News Agency.
New York Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/18/world/asia/in-brutal-year-for-news-media-in-afghanistan-a-7th-journalist-is-killed.html?_r=0
BBC:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/persian/afghanistan/2014/09/140917_mar_tokhi_killed_mazar.shtml?SThisFB
Huffington Post:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/09/17/afghanistan-journalists-killed-dead-seven-palwasha-tokhi_n_5837656.html
Peninsula Qatar:
http://thepeninsulaqatar.com/news/latest-news/300480/female-journalist-murdered-in-afghanistan
Rawa:
http://www.rawa.org/temp/runews/2014/09/17/female-journalist-stabbed-to-death-in-balkh.html
Khamma:
http://www.khaama.com/female-journalist-brutally-murdered-in-northern-afghanistan-6702
Tolo News:
http://www.tolonews.com/en/afghanistan/16405-female-journalist-killed-in-balkh-province
AIT’s official photographer Paitoon
Tinnapong vividly remembers Palwasha’s happiness when she posed for
photographs at her Graduation on 23 May 2014. In this photograph,
Palwasha can be seen first from left wearing a green and red
headscarf.