Afghanistan bans television coverage of Taliban attacks

Published: 12:57PM GMT 02 March 2010

The anathema appears to request to made at home and general headlines organisations, nonetheless the country"s comprehension group refused to yield details. Afghanistan"s constitution guarantees leisure of debate and media. An central at the government"s media section reliable the ban.

A orator pronounced live radio coverage of attacks - such as that in Kabul last Friday that killed sixteen people - could rapt belligerent organisations to military actions opposite their operatives on the ground.

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"While reporters are going to the stage of ongoing attacks, they discredit themselves and additionally they assistance surprise the rivalry with their live broadcasts or stating of the swell of (police) operations," Hakim Ashir, the head of the Government Media and Information Centre, said.

Afghanistan"s Pajhwok headlines group pronounced a little organisations - together with the BBC and Al-Jazeera - had already been informed.

It reflects an progressing try to anathema coverage of Taliban attacks during elections in August, underneath hazard of exclusion for general reporters and lien of apparatus for Afghans.

Afghan media groups criticised the ultimate move as censorship, observant it contravened the constitution.

"We see this as approach censorship. This is impediment of stating and contravenes the constitution that says entrance to report is the right of everyone," pronounced Rahimullah Samandar, head of the Afghanistan Independent Journalists" Association.