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Taliban shut down women-run radio station for ‘playing music’ during Ramzan

News Desk

Apr 04

Taliban have shut down a women-run radio station in Afghanistan for playing music in the month of Ramzan.

The radio station named ‘Sadai Banowan’ employed eight staff members, six of them female.

The women-run radio station was started 10 years ago.

According to Moezuddin Ahmadi, the director for Information and Culture in Badakhshan province, the station was shut down for repeatedly violating “laws and regulations of the Islamic Emirate”.

“If this radio station accepts the policy of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan and gives a guarantee that it will not repeat such a thing again, we will allow it to operate again,” he added.


However, station head Najia Sorosh has denied any violation, calling it a ‘conspiracy’.
The Taliban “told us that you have broadcast music. We have not broadcast any kind of music,” she said.

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