On February 13, Sunday whole world was celebrating the United Nation’s World Radio Day, but Afghanistan closed their 86 radio stations operations in the past six years since the time when the Taliban took control of the nation.

As per the media organizations that this collapse happened due to the country suffering from political and financial crises are the major reason.

The latest political change in Afghanistan following the fall of the republican government has severely affected the Afghan media’s radio sector.

‘Radio Jahan’ is also one of the radio stations that ceased operations since last year in August.

Radio Jahan is one of the radio stations that has ceased broadcasting for more than six months. The reason was the economic crises, said by the ‘Mosawar Rasikh’ who is the head of Radio Jahan.

Nearly 70 percent of Radio Station are now closed in the country, and 90 percent was the economic crises and broadcasting programmes — in the current solution.

On the contrary side, the government was forced to charge heavy taxes from the radio stations, said the head of the Zamzama radio stations.

As per the statistics, more than 300 different media organizations have been closed since the time when the Taliban came into power as per the reports.

According to Hojatullah Mujadidi, head of the Afghan Independent Journalist Association, “Our research indicates that if the global community doesn’t provide support to the media, then its is difficult for media stations to survive and maybe it will go hardly six months– this shows a collapse of the press in the country.

However, the media instrument has technologically developed in numerous ways. Radio remains one of the primary sources of information always for people in some nations.

According to Mangal, a resident of Wardak, “we have a lot of memories from the radio, he resiting the moments when there were restrictions for listening radio. When we want to hear the radio, we need one more person to lookout; we must listen secretly.
One more resident of Wardak stated that “It was a long time ago. When I was a toddler. My parents purchased a radio device, and I thought people were sitting under the radio and speaking from there.

Radio in Afghanistan started in the period of the former Afghan King Amanullah Khan in 1926. The first radio station was named Radio Kabul and broadcast in Kabul.