A radio station operating in the Badakhshan province in the northern part of Afghanistan is allowed to continue operating after a one-week shutdown. The condition was to stop playing the music.
The Sadai Banowan station has been operating for 10 years in the Badakhshan province in the northern part of Afghanistan. It was closed a week ago for playing music during Ramadan.
Six of the radio’s eight employees are women.
According to a representative of the local Taliban regime, the radio station can continue because it has “changed its programming to comply with the laws of the Islamic Emirate”.
According to the new regulations, no music will be played at the station anymore.
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Local cultural and information officer of the Taliban regime Moezuddin Ahmadi is satisfied with the radio station’s new program policy.
Radio director Najia Soroshi according to the station’s premises, the locked doors were opened and broadcasts were started after the break. In Afghanistan, radio is an important means of communication, because only about half of the people in the provinces can read.
AJSC, an organization that oversees the safety of journalists, was involved in negotiating the lifting of the ban on the radio station. AJSC is satisfied with the negotiated solution.
Many journalists, especially female journalists, have lost their jobs after August 2021. At that time, international forces withdrew from Afghanistan and the extremist Islamist Taliban regime came to power. Media outlets were shut down due to lack of money or employees after journalists fled abroad.
The Taliban has banned women from working in many fields. University studies are also prohibited. There is no official ban on playing music. During the Taliban’s previous rule in the 1990s, almost all communication was prohibited.
AP