 He was 40 years old.Sardar began his career as a journalist in 2001 with the fall of the Taliban, when he started working as a translator for Japanese journalists.He was hired by Agence France-Press in 2003 to cover the daily briefings by the US-led coalition at Bagram airbase, and became well known in the Afghan media world, and had quickly worked his way up to senior correspondent for AFP at the time of his death.