More than 250 newspapers, radio and TV stations have closed in first 100 days of militants’ rule
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The romantic serials have gone after the
Taliban warned against racy content, the popular women’s call-in shows were axed after the militants said they didn’t want female journalists on air, and news investigations were cancelled after officials demanded oversight before anything was broadcast.
So perhaps unsurprisingly, most people who used to tune into Radio Sanga, once one of the most popular stations in southern
Afghanistan, have turned off.