ISLAMABAD — A women-run radio station in northeastern Afghanistan has resumed its broadcasts, after officers shut it down for every week for enjoying music through the holy month of Ramadan, a Taliban official and the top of the station stated Friday.
Sadai Banowan, which implies “girls’s voice” in Dari, was launched 10 years in the past in Badakhshan province and is Afghanistan’s solely women-run radio station. Six of its eight employees members are girls.
Moezuddin Ahmadi, the director for Data and Tradition in Badakhshan, stated the station was allowed to renew actions on Thursday after it had obeyed the “legal guidelines and rules of the Islamic Emirate” and agreed to cease broadcasting any type of music.
Station head Najia Sorosh stated after the station “gave a dedication to officers on the data and tradition division, they unlocked the door of the station,” and so they began broadcasting once more.
The Afghan Journalist Security Committee, an Afghan watchdog group that promotes the protection of journalists and press freedom and which was concerned in mediation for the station’s reopening, welcomed the resumption of broadcasts.
“Following AJSC’s advocacy efforts, Sadia Banowan radio resumed its broadcasts,” he stated in a tweet.
Representatives from the Ministry of Data and Tradition and the Vice and Advantage Directorate had shut down the station every week earlier.
Many journalists misplaced their jobs after the Taliban takeover in August 2021. Media shops had been closed for an absence of funds or as a result of employees left the nation, in response to the Afghan Unbiased Journalists Affiliation.
The Taliban have barred girls from most types of employment and training past the sixth grade, together with college. There isn’t a official ban on music. Throughout their earlier rule within the late Nineteen Nineties, the Taliban barred most tv, radio and newspapers within the nation.