Daud Junbish

Daud Junbish is a BBC journalist. He is one of the few journalists in the world who has met former Taliban chief Mullah Omar, and has interviewed him on multiple occasions. He is the author of What Is Really Happening in Afghanistan?, 24 Hours That Turned Afghanistan Around, and Red Army in Afghanistan.

Junbish joined BBC Moscow in 1994 as a reporter. He subsequently became a senior editor with BBC Radio for their Afghanistan service. Currently, he works with BBC's Afghanistan service as a producer. and is jointly produced by the Afghan service of BBC, BBC Media Action, and Radio Television Afghanistan. Junbish, who launched the show in 2012 as a weekly series, BBC described the third edition of the show, hosted by Junbish, as including a "ground-breaking exchange". Junbish's show is credited with influencing government and civil society action on various national and regional issues. Le Monde reported that over 2 to 3 million people were regular viewers of the show, a high figure for a nation with a population of around 30 million.