On Saturday (March 18), the Afghanistan Nationwide Reporters Union (ANJU) revealed a record, highlighting that 53% of newshounds within the nation misplaced their jobs after the takeover of Afghanistan by means of the Taliban.
The record additionally identified that over 50% of media shops had close down operations since August 2021, basically because of monetary losses. In a remark, ANJU member Masroor Lutfi stated, “Maximum media workers have left Afghanistan. The media neighborhood is dealing with a number of issues.”
He additional added, “It faces financial difficulties, and restrictions were positioned at the media’s actions in Afghanistan. But even so this, the suspension or closure of the protecting regulations of the media neighborhood is a huge problem.”
ANJU revealed the damming record at the instance of Nationwide Reporters’ Day in Afghanistan on March 18. A number of newshounds in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan have raised issues about their deteriorating financial situation and loss of get entry to to knowledge.
A journalist named Mustafa Shahriar advised Tolo Information, “We ask govt officers and comparable officers to pay severe consideration to the issues of newshounds and make sure their protection.”
Some other journalist, Raqib Fayaz, lamented, “Twenty-seven of Hoot, the Journalist’s Day, is widely known when the ignorance get entry to is still thought to be a problem and this neighborhood continues to be coping with primary financial problems.”
When Indian liberals have been ‘salivating’ over press convention by means of the Taliban
In a while after taking up Afghanistan by means of drive in August 2021, the Islamist outfit Taliban held a press convention in Kabul. The left-liberal ecosystem in India was once so “inspired” by means of the clicking convention that they used it to assault Top Minister Narendra Modi.
A sequence of tweets popped up at the micro-blogging platform, shaming PM Modi for no longer retaining a press convention since he assumed administrative center in 2014.
Tweet by means of alleged comic Aditi. Supply: Twitter
Tweet by means of alleged activist Gurmeher Kaur. Supply: Twitter
Tweet by means of Michael Kugelman. Supply: Twitter
Tweet by means of alleged journalist Richa Singh. Supply: Twitter
For Indian ‘liberals’, the Taliban is healthier than the Indian Top Minister as a result of they held a press convention.
Top Minister Modi since he got here to energy first in 2014 has been interacting with the folk of India thru his radio programme Mann Ki Baat. He incessantly posts updates on social media websites as neatly. Then again, since he ‘has no longer held press convention’, the Taliban is healthier.
