£10million Afghanistan radio station faces the axe - Sunday Mirror

The Sunday Mirror reports that a radio station created by Britain to 'win the hearts and minds' of the Afghan people faces being axed.

The paper, which describes the project as a £10million fiasco, says that blundering civil servants gave control of Radio Hewad to a firm said to be backed by Iran. 

The company was given thousands to run the station for a month - but failed to broadcast a single programme. Now ministers have closed it down and are considering scrapping the project altogether.

The Sunday Mirror quotes “a furious Army source” as saying: “Apart from extremely dangerous patrols which cost lives, Radio Hewad was the only way to communicate with the people of Helmand. It’s three years and £10million down the drain.”

Source: Media Network, Sunday Mirror