With Restrictions On Visual Media, Taliban's Ministry of Defence Launches Its Radio

With the Taliban's efforts to prevent the broadcast of images of living creatures in the visual media, the group's Ministry of Defence announced the launch of operations of "Sada-e-Khalid" radio.

The Taliban's Ministry of Defence said that the radio station has started broadcasting from the 201st Corps.

According to a statement from the Taliban's Ministry of Defence, the radio will be broadcast live every day at a specific time.

The Taliban's Ministry of Defence said that this radio station will transmit Islamic and religious rules.

The radio station was launched after reliable sources told Afghanistan International that the Taliban was planning to stop broadcasting on Afghanistan's national television.

According to sources, Yousuf Ahmadi, the head of the Taliban-controlled National Television, said during a meeting with the directors of this channel that the suspension of the broadcast of this channel is the decision of the Taliban leader.

Previously, the Taliban had stopped broadcasting on national television in Kandahar and Takhar.

National television is a state-owned media outlet. Over the past three years, the Taliban has suspended many of the cultural and social programmes of this media outlet and dismissed the female employees of this channel.

The Taliban's controversial Law on the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice prohibits the publication and distribution of live images by media outlets.

According to information obtained by Afghanistan International, the Taliban is launching several new radio stations that will defend the group's policies and broadcast its religious views.

Sources say that "Radio Batman-e-Shamal" with its equipment will be renamed "Radio Hurriyat" and its broadcasts will be managed by the Taliban's intelligence. The Taliban is also planning to set up a radio station for their Interior Ministry.