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Najia Sorosh head of Sadai Banowan a women-run radio station, right, speaks with her Staff in the broadcasting studio in Badakhshan province, north-eastern of Afghanistan, Tuesday, Mar. 7, 2023.
THE Taliban have shut down a women-run radio station in Afghanistan for playing music during the holy month of Ramadan, an official said on Saturday.
Sadai Banowan, (Women’s Voice), is Afghanistan’s only women-run station and started 10 years ago in the northeastern province of Badakhshan.
Information and Culture provincial director Moezuddin Ahmadi said the station had violated the “laws and regulations of the Islamic Emirate” several times by broadcasting songs and music during Ramadan and was closed because of the breach.
Afghan women living under the Taliban are navigating a system that makes their public existence conditional on male approval, writes SHUKRIA RAHIMI
