London, Apr. 26 (ANI): Afghan President Hamid Karzai has ordered to halt the broadcast of 'un-Islamic' films and serials from television shows running in the country.
Karzai's move comes after a conservative clerical group called to halt the broadcast of 'un-Islamic' films and serials.
According to the Guardian, the Ulema Council complained to Karzai that there were 'many TV stations that turn to vulgarisms and broadcast immoral programmes, which are counter to national interests and Islamic values'.
Karzai in a statement said that the ministry of information and culture must prevent television channels from broadcasting programmes which are vulgar, obscene and un-Islamic and are counter to social morality, the report said.
Over the past decade Afghanistan has experienced a boom in communications, after television was banned during the Taliban's five years of rule.
Encouraged and sometimes funded by western governments, there are now dozens of television channels operating in the country, with around 36 in Kabul alone.
According to the report, Rafi Ferdous, a government spokesman, said the ministry would halt the broadcast of television shows and films that were 'against our society's norms, values and Islamic fundamentals'. (ANI)
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