The Taliban de facto government will set up AM radio stations in the border provinces of Afghanistan to “prevent propaganda by enemies”, private Tolo News TV reported on X on 9 April.
The director of the Taliban-controlled Radio Television Afghanistan (RTA) state broadcaster, Mohammad Yousaf Ahmadi, said that it would set up radio stations in all of the border provinces to strengthen RTA’s programmes and “prevent propaganda by enemies”.
“God willing, we will activate radios in the cities of border provinces, one after the other, in a short period of time… As a whole, this will, God willing, be like a trench against the enemies’ futile propaganda,” Ahmadi was shown saying. The RTA director made the remarks at an inauguration ceremony for a new RTA-run Voice of Sharia (Shariat Ghag) AM radio station in the southern province of Kandahar.
“Training, educational, literary and social [programmes] – by taking into consideration the requirements of the society which needs very important programmes – we have included all these in our schedule,” said Rafiullah Ehsan, head of the Voice of Sharia radio in Kandahar.
The move comes amid rising Taliban restrictions on media outlets since the group’s return to power.
BBC Monitoring in Dari and Pashto 1400 GMT 9 Apr 25 via Mike Cooper to WOR iog (2025-04-10)