Khost radio stations continue broadcast despite Taliban overrun

KHOST, AFGHANISTAN-AUGUST 23: Afghan local radio stations continue broadcast music and entertainment programs despite Taliban takeover on last day in Khost, Afghanistan, on August 23, 2021. Afghan Multimedia Agency

The broadcast manager of Zhmand Radio, added, “Taliban takeover Afghanistan the private publishing media even radios or TVs have been shut their publishing, but to say fortunately in Khost province the publishing still continuing and even in the first day of Taliban takeover some radios were kept their publishing ongoing, and those radios and TVs had fear from the Taliban, who think that they will face to any reaction by publishing music.”

“In Khost the media do good activities in fact, the music which were publishing before it has the same publishing, and they publish the music as before, we demand that let media to be free until they broadcast as before as they had publishing.” Explained a Khost resident.