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Afghan TV channel fined US$1,000 for
'un-Islamic' broadcasts
The Afghan government has fined a privately run television station
for broadcasting 'un-Islamic' material, including raunchy clips
from Bollywood movies, officials said on Saturday.
A committee within the Ministry of Information and Culture that
monitors private television stations ruled against the Afghan TV
channel last week, committee secretary Zia Wazir said. Wazir declined
to give details of the offending material, saying only: "They
had broadcast stuff that was against Afghan culture and it was unIslamic."
The channel was fined 50,000 afghanis (US$1,000), he said.
Another ministry official said the channel had been accused of
showing footage of half-naked people, including clips from Bollywood
movies. Officials at Afghan TV, one of four privately run stations
launched after the fall of the hardline Islamic Taliban regime in
late 2001, declined to comment.
Afghanistan's post-Taliban constitution, approved by a council
of tribal and religious leaders in 2003, grants freedom of expression
but conservative circles within the judiciary often pressure the
government to adhere to what they call "Islamic values".
Source: Media Network
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