Ahmed Omed Khpulwak, who has been killed in a militant attack in the Afghan province of Uruzgan, worked as a reporter for the BBC Pashto service. His colleague, former BBC World Service Kabul bureau editor Dawood Azami, knew him for almost three years and remembers a man who was full of life.

On the morning he was killed, Omed filed a news report for the BBC in Pashto. It would turn out to be his last.

Dear BBC listeners, he began, I'm in a district where 1,700 new homes are being constructed. The residents here say they now have work and their town is being rebuilt. Later in the day, Omed went to the radio and television station in the provincial capital of Tarin Kowt, which also served as his office. He often worked there, getting access to the internet and editing radio reports.

He was inside when suicide bombers and other militants launched their attack. His brother says he sent him two text messages. The first read: "I am hiding. Death has come." In the second, he wrote: "Pray for me if I die." In the evening, Omed's family attended his funeral. They said his body had been hit by 11 bullets.
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Ahmed Omed Khpulwak,

    I don't know when peace will come to Afghanistan - this country has a lot of problems”

Ahmed Omed Khpulwak

Like many Afghan civilians, he was in the wrong place at the wrong time and paid for it with his life. Omed had recently married. His baby daughter is three months old.