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Afghanistan Govt Shuts Down Emrose TV

by Fred Miller | March 26, 2009 at 08:11 pm

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Looks like the party's over for now, at least for some Afghani TV stations. The daring dance adopted by Emrose TV's Fahim Khodamani was ended with his arrest on Monday.
The Afghan deputy attorney general said on Tuesday that this was only the first arrest in connection with overly-salacious content being aired on Afghani TV.
Previous arrests relating to similar cases have occurred, but now the Taliban's use of these stations to flame the fires of their own voices has the Govt. re-thinking their approach on how they must maintain a balance of power in the region.

Afghanistan's media oversight commission repeatedly reproached the channel for the amount of bare skin on its programs, and for airing pop music videos during the Islamic holiday of Ashoura in January, according to Faqiyar and the station's owner, Najibullah Kabuli.
Kabuli confirmed that Khodamani refused to edit or censor the programming, saying it was station policy to air unaltered programs.

He said the demand and Khodamani's arrest were "against freedom of speech and democracy." Kabuli, who is also a member of parliament, said the arrest may have been masterminded by his political enemies.

The attached Mallika Sherawat video depicts the 'hot' star of India's film industry known as 'Bollywood' playing it up for the camera. The TV host speaks in Hinglish which is a sprinkling of English that spices up the native Hindi sentences, often for emphasis and to demonstrate the hipness of the broadcast. Even the language barrier cannot hide the intent of the actress, who flaunts herself in India but is known to change clothing en route to Dubai and such places so as to avoid possible religious hardliners and crazed fans.

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Paschen

at 21:16 on March 26th, 2009

So much for democracy and free speech in Afghanistan, why is NATO defending this government again?

Fred Miller

at 15:38 on March 27th, 2009

A U.N.-mandated ISAF (International Security Assistance Force)

ISAF is a coalition of the willing - not a UN force properly speaking - which has a peace-enforcement mandate under Chapter VII of the UN Charter.

http://www.nato.int/issues/afghanistan/index.html

Roy C

at 01:01 on March 27th, 2009

Sexier than Jennifer Ariston. :)

Fred Miller

at 15:15 on March 27th, 2009

Very much so. Jackie Chan had her in one of his films for a few brief moments but together they hit the film festival circuits including Cannes as if she was the star and that has upped her ante unbelievably.