Kabul, Feb 5 : Media in Afghanistan are required to be unbiased and committed to the Islamic values, the Taliban said on Saturday. “The Islamic Emirate is committed to the freedom of media, but the media are also required to be impartial and committed to Islamic and national values, the Taliban’s spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said in his tweet. “We seek to remove obstacles to the media and urge them to comply with the law on media,” Mujahid added.
The International Federation of Journalists had condemned in late September 11 new regulations for the media industry that the Taliban came up with. The federation saw the regulations as a tool to restrict press freedom and ‘effectively dismantle any possibility of sustainable independent journalism in Afghanistan,’ Sputnik reported. However, the Taliban said that the rules were based on the previous Afghanistan’s media law which was adopted before the takeover.
