Najia Sorosh, head of Sadai Banowan a women-run radio station, left, speaks right into a microphone within the studio in Badakhshan province, Afghanistan, on Jan. 4. A women-run radio station in Afghanistan’s northeast has been shut down for enjoying music throughout Ramadan, a Taliban official stated.

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Najia Sorosh, head of Sadai Banowan a women-run radio station, left, speaks right into a microphone within the studio in Badakhshan province, Afghanistan, on Jan. 4. A women-run radio station in Afghanistan’s northeast has been shut down for enjoying music throughout Ramadan, a Taliban official stated.

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JALALABAD, Afghanistan — A women-run radio station in Afghanistan’s northeast has been shut down for enjoying music in the course of the holy month of Ramadan, a Taliban official stated Saturday.

Sadai Banowan, which implies ladies’s voice in Dari, is Afghanistan’s solely women-run station and began 10 years in the past. It has eight workers, six of them feminine.

Moezuddin Ahmadi, the director for Information and Culture in Badakhshan province, stated the station violated the “laws and regulations of the Islamic Emirate” a number of instances by broadcasting songs and music throughout Ramadan and was shuttered due to the breach.

“If this radio station accepts the policy of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan and gives a guarantee that it will not repeat such a thing again, we will allow it to operate again,” stated Ahmadi.

Station head Najia Sorosh denied there was any violation, saying there was no want for the closure and referred to as it a conspiracy. The Taliban “told us that you have broadcast music. We have not broadcast any kind of music,” she stated.

Sorosh stated at 11:40 a.m. on Thursday representatives from the Ministry of Information and Culture and the Vice and Virtue Directorate arrived on the station and shut it down. She stated station workers have contacted Vice and Virtue however officers there stated they don’t have any further details about the closing.

Many journalists misplaced their jobs after the Taliban takeover in August 2021. Media shops closed over lack of funds or as a result of workers left the nation, in keeping with the Afghan Independent Journalists Association.

The Taliban have barred ladies from most types of employment and training past the sixth grade, together with college. There isn’t any official ban on music. During their earlier rule within the late Nineties, the Taliban barred most tv, radio and newspapers within the nation.