A women-run radio station in Afghanistan has been close down for taking part in song all the way through the holy month of Ramadan, a Taliban legitimate stated on Saturday.
The radio station is called Sada-e-Banowan, this means that females’s voice in Dari Persian, and it’s Afghanistan’s best women-run station positioned in Faizabad, in Badakhshan province in northeast Afghanistan. Officers from the Taliban’s Directorate of Data and Tradition and Directorate of Promotion of Distinctive feature and Prevention of Vice arrived on the station on 30 March and shuttered it.
The officers accused the radio station of illegally airing song all the way through the holy month of Ramzan. Moezuddin Ahmadi, the director for Data and Tradition in Badakhshan province, stated the station violated the “rules and rules of the Islamic Emirate” a number of occasions through broadcasting songs and song all the way through Ramzan and used to be shuttered on account of the breach.
“If this radio station accepts the coverage of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan and provides a ensure that it’ll now not repeat this type of factor once more, we will be able to permit it to perform once more,” Ahmadi added.
Alternatively, the radio station has denied any violation of Taliban regulations, announcing that the allegations are false. “Now we have now not broadcast any more or less song,” Station head Najia Sorosh stated. She alleged that it used to be a conspiracy in opposition to the station for the station’s methods specializing in females’s schooling and activity alternatives in Badakhshan.
Najia Sorosh stated that the officers from the Ministry of Data and Tradition and the Vice and Distinctive feature Directorate arrived on the station at 11:40 a.m. on Thursday and close it down. She added that the ministry has now not equipped any more knowledge in regards to the closure.
Radio Sada e Banowan used to be established in 2014 and it’s owned through Afghan feminine journalist Najla Shirzad. Native Taliban officers allowed the radio station to restart operations after taking up energy within the nation. The station has 8 workers, and 6 of them are females.