Radio and online are unaffected as the regime stops local TV showing international partner content.
BBC TV programming has been taken off air in Afghanistan, after the Taliban ordered local channels not to broadcast content from international partners.
The BBC Persian TV channel can still be accessed - but only by the 20% of Afghans who have satellite TV.Other international broadcasters whose programming was taken off air by the ruling include Voice of America, German company Deutsche Welle and China Global Television Network. "We call on the Taliban to reverse their decision and allow our TV partners to return the BBC's news programmes to their airwaves immediately," he added.Before the ruling, the BBC had broadcast every day for half an hour in Pashto, via Afghan partner stations.
However, reporters have at times been detained or beaten as a result of their coverage and many Afghan journalists fled the country after the group took power last year.
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