“These serials are against Afghan culture. They are anti-Islamic and bad for the Afghan people,” says Abdul Qadir, a 20 year-old student, on the government decision to ban the wildly popular Indian ...

The Afghanistan government has ordered private TV stations in the war-ravaged country to stop broadcasting popular Indian soap operas by April 15, a move that apparently reflected the growing ...

“We are the canary in the coal mine,” says Saad Mohseni, the chief executive of Tolo TV, Afghanistan’s leading television network. Its brave journalists and programmers are still breathing, but ...

Love affairs, foreign gods and ladies' belly-buttons are at the centre of a row threatening Afghanistan's free press. Broadcasters are locked in a battle with the country's Information Minister, after ...

The Afghan government has asked prosecutors to investigate two private TV stations that have not complied with a ban on Indian soap operas. "Tolo has not stopped the broadcast of the said series by ...

Representatives of Afghanistan’s Tolo TV station spoke last week in the U.S. about laws being imposed on Afghanistan’s media by the country’s Ministry of Information and Culture, calling the ...