From the BBC:

Ajmal Naqshbandi worked as a guide for visiting reporters

The Taleban in Afghanistan say they have killed an Afghan reporter abducted last month with an Italian journalist.

The group said it had killed Ajmal Naqshbandi as the government had refused to meet their demands to release senior figures from prison.

The Italian reporter, Daniele Mastrogiacomo, was released after five Taleban members were freed in exchange.

The two reporters and their driver, who was earlier beheaded, were captured on 6 March in Helmand province.

Shohaabuddin Atal, a spokesman for Taleban commander Mullah Dadullah, said: "We killed Ajmal today because the government did not respond to our demands."

According to the article, Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai said Friday that his government would conduct no further hostage swaps. There was outrage at the time among Afghans that the government didn't obtain Naqshbandi's release at the same time it got Mastrogiacomo back.

The Taleban are still holding five government medics and two French aid workers along with three Afghan colleagues.

Their fate will be decided next, they say.