[HCDX] No TV in Afghanistan yet

[Sergei Sosedkin <radonezh@xxxxxxxxx>]

AFGHANISTAN.  The information minister of the Taliban
government has officially rejected the reports by the
Pakistani press about possible re-introduction of TV
broadcasting in Afghanistan.  The rumors that the
Taliban government would allow some form of TV
broadcasting surfaced after a week-long seminar on
this issue sponsored by the Taliban Information
Ministry.  
Taliban recognized that it would be helpful to launch
a governmental TV-channel to carry religious and
political propaganda.  However, the authorities are
cautious that the population would start watchingother
TV channels which, in their opinion, "would be a
betrayal of the cause of Islam."  After capturing
Kabul in 1996 the Taliban leaders announced that any
picture of a human being or an animal was a form of
idolatry.  Then they shut down TV centers and banned
ownership of TV-receivers.  On the streets of Kabul
the Islamic moral police publicly destroyed
theuncovered TVs and VCRs.  
Currently, radio is the primary mass media in
Afghanistan.  Over 70 percent of population own radio
receivers.  The Afghani radio listeners prefer the
foreign broadcasts to those produced locally. 
According to the Russian Information Agency Novosti,
the US and Russian radio stations broadcasting in
local languages are especially popularamong the
Afghanis.
(Report by Echo of Moscow Radio, July 24, 2000)

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