The Radio Voice of Shariat, an FM channel, was recently re-launched in southern Afghanistan. The channel is run by the Taliban and used, at one time, to be Radio Afghanistan. The Taliban changed the channel’s name when they captured Kabul in 1996.
Radio Voice of Shariat is a mobile radio and its location is unknown. It is, moreover, one among over 60 FM channels in the country.
Ever since the overthrow of the Taliban regime in 2001, there have arisen more than 100 magazines and newspapers, over 60 FM channels and eight independent television stations in Afghanistan, but there have been complaints that many of these media are blatant political instruments and that journalists are ill-trained and endangered in proportion to their degree of fortitude.
The media, however, continues to grow as and where it can.
In 2004, in the suburbs of Kabul, there arose a radio station without any journalists. The channel aired music interrupted by a jingle with a telephone number – and nothing else.
For ages apparently, people could not figure out what the channel was. They would call in to request songs and have their requests ignored and calls aired. Then one day some body called in and launched into a voluble complaint about the shortage of electricity in Kabul. Radio Watanda, as it is called, had arrived and since then has become a popular medium through which common people air their views.
Radio Voice of Shariat is a mobile radio and its location is unknown. It is, moreover, one among over 60 FM channels in the country.
Ever since the overthrow of the Taliban regime in 2001, there have arisen more than 100 magazines and newspapers, over 60 FM channels and eight independent television stations in Afghanistan, but there have been complaints that many of these media are blatant political instruments and that journalists are ill-trained and endangered in proportion to their degree of fortitude.
The media, however, continues to grow as and where it can.
In 2004, in the suburbs of Kabul, there arose a radio station without any journalists. The channel aired music interrupted by a jingle with a telephone number – and nothing else.
For ages apparently, people could not figure out what the channel was. They would call in to request songs and have their requests ignored and calls aired. Then one day some body called in and launched into a voluble complaint about the shortage of electricity in Kabul. Radio Watanda, as it is called, had arrived and since then has become a popular medium through which common people air their views.
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