VOA News: A local radio station recently started broadcasting programs for women in the traditionally conservative eastern Afghanistan province of Khost. The goal is to reach out to more women in the region through radio.
1TV: Afghan Acting Interior Minister Massoud Andarabi has ordered the ministry’s personnel not to give interviews to press or remark on social media. If needed, necessary procedures should be made following instruction by the ministry’s leadership and in coordination with the general directorate of strategic communications, according to the order. Click here to read more
RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan February 5, 2020 An Afghan media watchdog has urged the government to take note of a demand for more media freedoms after numerous local media outlets issued a joint statement denouncing the “deterioration” of access to government-related information in the country. Sayed Ikram Afzali, the head of Integrity Watch Afghanistan, said
RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan February 4, 2020 KABUL — Dozens of Afghan media outlets have joined their voices to denounce the “deterioration” of access to government-related information in the country. In a joint statement issued on February 4, 30 media outlets including privately owned national TV channels, local broadcasters, and newspapers blamed the “carelessness” of the government
The Diplomat: Daily newspaper Etilaat Roz makes an impact in the chaotic Afghan democracy. Etilaat Roz, or Daily Information, has established itself as a torchbearer investigative newspaper in Kabul, the Afghan capital. The daily hunts corruption, stirring what’s increasingly becoming a chaotic Afghan democracy, which suffers from ethnic frictions, messy elections, and insurgency. Click here to read
The Guardian (UK): The presenter, pop star and women’s rights activist Mozhdah Jamalzadah talks about fleeing her country, before returning and revolutionising Afghan TV – Jamalzadah was five when her family escaped Afghanistan, eventually settling in Canada. In 2009, in her mid-20s, she returned to Kabul after being invited by a new TV station to host
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty September 25, 2019 An Afghan reporter has died from injuries suffered in an explosion near the election campaign headquarters of President Ashraf Ghani in the city of Kandahar. Hewad TV said in a Facebook post on September 25 that Abdul Hamid Hotaki died in hospital from “heavy wounds” suffered in the
BBC News: The northern Afghan city of Kunduz is not the kind of place you’d expect to find a radio station run by women, promoting women’s rights. But this is precisely what Radio Roshani is, and it’s broadcasting today despite several attempts by the Taliban to kill its founder and editor, Sediqa Sherzai. Click here to
VOA News August 26, 2019 Akbar Ayazi, the director of VOA’s South and Central Asia Division, passed away Sunday after a prolonged battle with lung cancer, complicated by pneumonia. He was 65. Friends and colleagues expressed a deep sense of loss at the death of Ayazi, who since 2015 was responsible for the operations of
Tolo News: A magnetic IED blast targeted a bus carrying the employees of Khurshid TV, a private media outlet, in the fifth street of Taimani in Kabul’s police district 4 (PD4) at around 5:30 pm on Sunday evening. Two people, including a passerby and driver of the bus, were killed and four others, including three employees