Media News - Wednesday, May 14, 2008

Taliban ban TV in Afghan province

Taliban insurgents have ordered residents of a province near the capital Kabul to stop watching television, saying the networks were showing un-Islamic programs, officials and local media said on Tuesday. The order is the last in a wave of curbs that the resurgent militants have announced in areas they are active. A senior Afghan information ministry official, Najib Manelai, said that dozens of masked men with weapons entered mosques in Logar province at the weekend and threatened residents against watching television. Media reports quoted residents as saying that the Taliban imposed the ban because TV networks were showing programs that were ‘un-Islamic and anti-Afghan culture.’ While in power from 1996 until their ouster in 2001, the Taliban Islamists had banned television, music and cinema. More than a dozen private TV networks and scores of radio stations have been launched in Afghanistan since their fall. The information ministry along with security forces was taking action against the Taliban move, minister Manelai said, without giving details. (Reuters via Washington Post)

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