9 April 2023 Sadai Banowan, a women-run radio station in northeastern Afghanistan has resumed broadcasting after the Taliban shut it down for playing music during the holy month...
7 April 2023 Afghanistan's only women-run radio station - Sadai Banowan, has been shut down for playing music during the holy month of Ramadan, according to a Taliban...
30 March 2023 After 82 years of operation, the final program of BBC Persian (Farsi) Radio was broadcast on Sunday, March 26. The Farsi radio service was launched...
21 February 2023 Since the return to power of Taliban, 117 Afghan radio stations have closed due to economic hardships, displacing 1,900 people including 1075 women from their...
1 December 2022 FM radio broadcasts from Voice of America (VOA) and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) stations in Afghanistan will be banned from December 1, according to...
11 October 2022 According to a report by the Afghanistan Journalist Center (AFJC), the Taliban Directorate of Intelligence prison has released Mirza Hasani, former owner and editor of...
27 July 2022 Selagi Ehsaas, a female host of Dost Radio in Nangarhar province in eastern Afghanistan was assaulted by unidentified gunmen on July 20 while returning from...
30 June 2022 The BBC News Afghanistan service in Pashto and Dari has launched a weekly radio programme, Women (Mermen in Pashto, and Zan in Dari). The 30-minute...
6 June 2022 Jamaluddin Deldar, owner and executive editor of local radio station Radio Saday-e-Gardez, was detained by the Taliban at his office in Gardez city of Paktia...
18 April 2022 According to a report in Tolo News, two popular radio stations in Afghanistan’s Paktia and Faryab provinces went off the air last week due to...
18 March 2022 Reporters from Pajhwok Afghan News have won awards from two different media associations in the country. Afghanistan Journalists’ Center (AFJC) awarded four top journalists with...
6 March 2022 According to a report in Pajhwok Afghan News (paid subscription), four radio stations, including a state-run one in central Logar province, may shut down due...
2 March 2022 Local radio station Ittefaq has returned to air in Afghanistan’s central Logar province after a six-month suspension, changing its name as ‘Bab-ul-Jihad Radio.’ The station...
23 February 2022 Radio Tajla, a private radio station in Afghanistan’s in central Maidan Wardak, has stopped broadcasting because of financial problems, according to a report in Pajhwok...
16 February 2022 As the rest of the world marked #WorldRadioDay on February 13, Afghanistan mourned the loss of as 86 radio stations which have halted operations over...
23 August 2021 According to a report by Pajhwok, Taliban's information affairs in-charge for central Ghazni province has banned music and work of female employees in local radio...
6 January 2020 According to media watchdog Supporting Open Media in Afghanistan – Nai, Safar Mohammad, an employee of Radio Samon was killed by unknown gunmen in eastern...
25 September 2019 Afghan radio presenter Abdul Hamid Hotaki has died from injuries in an explosion near the election campaign headquarters of President Ashraf Ghani in the...
14 July 2019 Nadir Shah Sahibzada, a radio producer and presenter with Sada-e-Gardiz Radio Station in Gardiz, the capital city of southern Paktia province, Afghanistan, was killed...
8 February 2019 Two employees of Radio Hamsada – a private broadcaster based in Taloqan, the capital of Takhar Province in northeastern Afghanistan, were shot dead by...
18 July 2018 A creation of former BBC journalist John Butt, the long-running radio drama ‘Da Pulay Poray’ (Across the Border), which broadcasts in Pashto language to millions...
1 April 2018 Afghanistan’s Pajhwok Afghan News and Sheba Radio/HUB Group have signed an agreement to share services and resources. “The agreement provides in principle, for...
7 September 2017 Private investment fund InFrontier has announced a $3 million investment in Alef Technology, Afghanistan’s leading broadcast technical services and critical power company. Currently with 24...
20 January 2017 Nai Media Watch in Afghanistan has presented its annual report tracking violence against journalists. Unfortunately, 2016 was the most violent year for the media...
8 March 2016 Zarghona Hassan, the owner of Radio Shaesta – an Afghan radio station dedicated to women’s issues, is back on air six months after...
21 January 2016 Staff of private radio and TV broadcaster Tolo were hit by a suicide attack in Afghanistan on Wednesday evening. Tolo is one of...
