The Taliban warn journalists and experts against cooperating with Afghanistan International TV

Afghanistan International TV, which is headquartered successful London, is accessible done satellite, cablegram and societal media.

A spokesperson for the Taliban-controlled Ministry of Information and Culture alleged the presumption was committing nonrecreational violations and violating motivation and ineligible boundaries.

The Media Violations Commission wanted each journalists and experts successful Afghanistan to cease their collaboration with the station, said ministry spokesperson Habib Ghofran.

“At the commission’s gathering held yesterday (Wednesday), it was decided that participating successful discussions and facilitating the broadcast of this media outlet successful nationalist places is prohibited," added Ghofran.

The lawman curate for broadcasting Zia ul Haq Haqmal said radical would beryllium committing a transgression if they cooperated with the station.

He cited 10 reasons to debar moving with Afghanistan International TV, including its alleged distortion oregon falsification of accusation and campaigning against the ruling system.

“If idiosyncratic does not cooperate connected the ground of each these 10 reasons, past it’s the court’s occupation to springiness a punishment," said Haqmal.

The manager of Afghanistan International TV, Harun Najafizada, said the commission's determination would not impact the transmission due to the fact that it had nary employees oregon freelancers successful the country.

“We don’t person anyone connected the crushed and trust connected the reporting of Afghan citizens," said Najafizada. “That’s much challenging, but we person pugnacious verification. It’s a menace to escaped media, to different media, and to enactment unit connected america to forgo our nonrecreational standards. It’s not going to work."

Afghanistan fares abysmally successful presumption of press freedom. The latest scale from Reporters without Borders ranked the state 178 retired of 180. It ranked 152 past year.

The enactment said 3 vigor reporters were arrested successful April for broadcasting euphony and receiving calls from pistillate listeners during shows. Local authorities weren’t disposable to corroborate the arrests.

Also past month, the Taliban suspended two TV stations for failing to “consider nationalist and Islamic values."

The manager for 1 of the suspended stations, Barya TV, rejected the Taliban’s allegations. The presumption is inactive disconnected air.

Latif Sadiq said the presumption wasn’t informed astir the suspension. “The reports that they repeatedly warned (Barya) are implicit lies," Sadiq said Thursday. “They person decided connected their ain that (Barya) tv is off, broadcasting is off, and they said the lawsuit volition spell to court."

Many journalists mislaid their jobs aft the Taliban takeover successful 2021, with media outlets closing implicit a deficiency of funds oregon due to the fact that their unit near the country. Women journalists look further hardships due to the fact that of enactment bans and question restrictions.

During their erstwhile regularisation successful the precocious 1990s, the Taliban barred astir television, vigor and newspapers.

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Published: 10 May 2024, 06:18 AM IST