New Talibani Guidelines Vs Future of Press Freedom !

 

 

 

Qari Muhammad Yousuf Ahmadi, the interim director of the Government Media and Information Center and a longtime Taliban spokesman, unveiled various rules for journalists . These curbs include directives against publishing topics that are in conflict with Islam or insulting to national personalities, and also instruct journalists to produce news reports in coordination with the government media office. There has been a change in the content being shown on private TV channels. Critical news bulletins, political debates, entertainment and music shows, foreign dramas are replaced with programmes tailored to the Taliban government. The new rules announced by the Taliban have done little to calm the nervousness of members of the media and advocates for journalists.