31 August 2025 A new private radio station named Cheragh has commenced broadcasting in Afghanistan’s Kandahar province. The station, which operates on 90.9 FM, also reaches remote districts...
10 August 2025 Following the arrest and release of the station’s editor-in-chief and two journalists by the Taliban, Afghanistan's Radio Nasim, which broadcasts in Daikundi and Bamyan provinces...
9 February 2025 Afghanistan's Taliban authorities raided and suspended the country’s only women’s radio station - Radio Begum, last week. According to the Afghanistan Journalists Center (AFJC), on...
15 December 2024 According to a report by Bakhtar News Agency Afghanistan’s Deputy Minister of Culture and Art at the Ministry of Information and Culture, Mawlawi Atiqullah Azizi,...
6 November 2024 Radio Ghargasht, a local station in the southeastern province of Khost, Afghanistan, resumed operations on Saturday following a three-day ban imposed by the...
22 October 2024 The Taliban is reportedly planning to convert state television stations into radio outlets following its ban on broadcasting images of living beings, according to a...
6 October 2024 Taliban have arrested Hikmat Aryan, the director of Radio Khushhal, a private radio station in Ghazni, according to the Afghanistan Journalists Center (AFJC). Radio Khushhal...
25 July 2024 The Afghanistan Journalists Center (AFJC) has released its findings on media freedom violations in Afghanistan for the first six months of 2024, reporting that seven...
10 July 2024 The Taliban General Directorate of Intelligence (GDI) has shut down the private radio station Kawoon Ghag, which has been operating in the in eastern Laghman...
29 April 2024 According to reports by Committee To Protect Journalists (CPJ) and Afghanistan Journalists Center (AFJC), three radio journalists were arrested by the provincial directorate of the...
21 April 2024 According to a report by the Afghanistan Journalist Center (AFJC), Habib-ur-Rahman Taseer, a local journalist associated with Radio Azadi/Radio Free Europe in southeastern Ghazni province...
7 April 2024 The Taliban launched three radio stations - “Shariat Voice,” “Omid Voice,” and “Horiat Voice,” in Herat province last week, according to a spokesperson for the...
17 March 2024 According to local sources, two private radio stations – Shamla and Dehkada, were temporarily closed by the Taliban municipality on March 10 in Ghazni province...
19 January 2024 According to the Afghanistan Journalists Centre (AFJC), private radio station Nan in southeastern Khost province has been abruptly shut down today by local Taliban officials...
17 January 2024 A new private radio station called Aynak Radio has started broadcasting in Pul-e-Alam, Logar province, Afghanistan, after a two-month trial period. The station was inaugurated...
1 October 2023 The Taliban forced Nasim Radio, a local radio station in Daikundi province in central Afghanistan, to shut down on Wednesday, September 27. They also arrested...
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...
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...
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...
19 September 2021 Afghanistan continues to be a perilous place for journalists after Taliban took control of the country last month. Dozens of reporters have been killed in...
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...
2 November 2015 Insurgents last month looted offices of four radio stations and the provincial branch of Pajhwok Afghan News in northeastern Kunduz province. The radio stations...
