Hares Kakar
Kabul
Hares Kakar is an Afghan journalist in Afghanistan with experience at major international media. Currently he works as reporter for German Press Agency dpa and German Public Radio ARD.
His career in journalism started in 2007 with Afghanistan Times, while he was a second-year student at Kabul University. He got his break covering protests that erupted across the country over a mistranslation of the Holy Koran by a prominent Afghan journalist.
In 2009, he was hired by a Japanese news agency to cover second Afghan presidential election and in 2010 he went to his current employer Deutsche Presse-Agenture (dpa).
He writes about conflict, terrorism, governance, corruption, human rights and lifestyle in Afghanistan.
You can reach him here.
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