[HCDX] NEW KANDAHAR RADIO STATION TO BE LAUNCHED.

["Alokesh Gupta" <alokeshgupta@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

NEW KANDAHAR RADIO STATION TO BE LAUNCHED.
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The Boston-based NGO Afghans for Civil Society (ACS) on 25 February
announced that former
BBC producer Akhtar Kohestani will serve as station manager for Afghan
Independent Radio (AIR),
which is to be launched this spring.AIR will be the first independent radio
station to be based in the
former Taliban stronghold of Kandahar in southern Afghanistan. For 20 years,
Kohestani worked
with the BBC's Pashtu Service as a producer of radio programs for
Afghanistan. Internews will provide
technical support and staff training. Program content will be shared among
radio stations throughout
Afghanistan. Plans are under development for program sharing with the BBC,
Radio Free Europe/Radio
Liberty, Voice of America, Radio Afghanistan (Kabul), and Radio Afghanistan
(Toronto). The project is
managed by Afghans for Civil Society and funded by the Carr Foundation and
the Open Society
Institute (OSI). See http://www.afghanpolicy.org CC

(From : RFE/RL MEDIA MATTERS Vol. 3, No. 10, 17 March 2003)

Regds,
Alokesh Gupta
New Delhi, India.


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