Reporting from the Afghan capital, Kabul, BBC correspondent Secunder Kermani said the Taliban had insisted the media could report critically, "as long as they bear 'Islamic values' and 'national unity' in mind". Similar arrangements allowed for 15 minutes of programming in Uzbek, five days a week, and for 60 minutes a day in Persian, also five days a week, backed by two weekly current affairs programmes.
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"We call on the Taliban to reverse their decision and allow our TV partners to return the BBC's news programs to their airwaves immediately," he added.īefore the ruling, the BBC had broadcast every day for half an hour in Pashto, via Afghan partner stations. Other international broadcasters whose programming was taken off air by the ruling include Voice of America, German company Deutsche Welle and China Global Television Network.īBC World Service head of languages Tarik Kafala said it was crucial Afghans were not denied access to impartial journalism at a time of "uncertainty and turbulence". Radio and online services are unaffected. The BBC Persian TV channel can still be accessed - but only by the 20% of Afghans who have satellite TV.
LONDON - BBC TV programming has been taken off air in Afghanistan, after the Taliban ordered local channels not to broadcast content from international partners.Ĭalling it a "worrying development", the BBC said it would affect more than six million viewers of Persian, Pashto and Uzbek language service programs.
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