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122: 138: 345:. The Taliban banned music on the new station and ordered the destruction of the radio archives, which contained irreplaceable tapes of Radio Afghanistan music and political programs going back over forty years. The tapes were presumed to have been permanently lost, but in 2002, the BBC reported that, miraculously, the archives survived not only the Taliban but the utter destruction of the Radio Afghanistan building by American bombs during the 25: 349:
in November 2001. The tapes were hidden by Mohammad Siddiq or "Mr. Computer", the person in charge of the archives, from the Taliban who destroyed what they thought were the archives but were instead actually Indian and Iranian music tapes. Siddiq claimed there were 50,000 radio tapes.
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Throughout the modern history of Afghanistan, the radio has been controlled by (and renamed by) the currently ruling party or organization. The various changes of governments during the 1970s were all announced by the new leaders over the radio station. After the
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After the Taliban were driven from power, Radio Afghanistan resumed its music and political programs. It has been claimed that the first song broadcast by Radio Afghanistan following the fall of the Taliban was the famous patriotic song "Watan"
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branding was again reinstated, with the station signing in with the aforementioned name on 16 August 2021, the day following the takeover. Music broadcasts were again outlawed, being replaced by religious, patriotic and jihadist chants.
341:). As the Taliban consolidated their power throughout the country, the radio station was used to rally Taliban supporters and to broadcast new edicts by the ruling 216:
transmitter was installed in its place, operating at 600 kHz. This is generally considered the official birth of Radio Kabul. Programs were broadcast in
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in 1979, Radio Afghanistan was controlled by the Soviet-backed government and was used to rebroadcast pro-Soviet propaganda directly from the Soviet Union.
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has been given to many different incarnations of the state-run radio station since the first radio transmitters were installed in
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Central control panel at Radio Kabul transmitter in the 1950s. The transmitter could be heard as far as
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tried to reinforce his goal of pan-Afghan unity, the station's name was changed in 1953 to the
121: 82: 205: 420: 379: 362: 197: 500:[MW] 1107 kHz - Voice of Sharia, Kabul - excellent reception in Poland, Oct 4 2021 8: 245: 209: 157: 426: 171:. The frequencies are 1107 kHz (AM) and 105.2 MHz (FM) for the Kabul area. The name 229: 308: 233: 498: 472: 526: 399: 325: 160: 282: 126: 268:. These master musicians were revered not only in Afghanistan but also in 164: 448: 137: 130: 24: 213: 297: 261: 460:
War, Exile and the Music of Afghanistan: The Ethnographer’s Tale
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War, Exile and the Music of Afghanistan: The Ethnographer's Tale
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gained control of Kabul, the station's name was changed to the
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