According to a Taliban official on Saturday, a women-run afghan station in the northeast of Afghanistan has been shut down for broadcasting music during the fasting month of Ramadan. Afghanistan’s sole women-run station, Sadai Banowan, which translates to “women’s voice” in Dari, has been broadcasting for ten years. Six of the eight employees are female.
Taliban close Women-Run Afghan Station for Playing Music
The station broadcasting songs and music during Ramadan broke the “laws and regulations of the Islamic Emirate” several times, according to Moezuddin Ahmadi, the head for information and culture in the province of Badakhshan, and was shut down as a result.
Najia Sorosh, the station’s manager, denied any violation, claimed there was no need for the shutdown, and labelled it a plot. We were informed by the Taliban that you had transmitted music. No music has been transmitted.
According to Sorosh, officials from the Vice and Virtue Directorate and the Ministry of Information and Culture shut down the station at 11:40 a.m. on Thursday. She claimed that when station staff called Vice and Virtue, representatives from that company said they were unaware of any further details regarding the closure.
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