Radio Kabul

Radio Kabul is the state radio station of Afghanistan and operated by Radio Afghanistan. The name Radio Kabul also led various predecessors of the transmitter, as its official founding in 1940 applies.

History

In 1925, a Russian 200 - watt transmitter, which sent 833 kHz on AM, installed by the former Afghan King Amanullah Khan in Kabul Palace. This transmitter was destroyed in 1929 during a revolt against the king. The transmitter was reinstalled in 1931 by the new King Mohammed Nadir Shah and equipped in 1940 with a new 20 -kilowatt transmitter that sent to 600 kHz. This is considered the official birth of Radio Kabul. Programs were broadcast in the languages ​​Pashto, Dari, Hindi, English and French.

In the 1960s and 1970s, Radio Kabul was host to a whole range of traditional and modern Afghan artists such as Ustad Nangyalai, Ustad Arman, Mohamed Hussein Sara slope, Farida Mahwash, Mohammad Hashem Cheshti and Rahim Baksh. This master - musicians ( revered as Ustad ) were known not only in Afghanistan but also in India, Pakistan and all over the Middle East.

In 1973, when the king was overthrown by a coup, reported the new ruler of the change of government via the transmitter. When the Soviet Union in 1979 installed a puppet government, Radio Kabul was used by the Soviet- backed government as a converter for sent from Moscow pro-Soviet propaganda.

During the ensuing civil war and after the Soviet withdrawal in 1990, the station changed ownership several times between the respective factions that took control of Kabul. In 1996, when the Taliban moved into Kabul, the station has been in Shariat Ghagh, renamed, which means Voice of Sharia. At the time of consolidation of the Taliban regime, the transmitter was used for inciting their supporters and to send the calls to the mullahs.

Music broadcasts were forbidden to Taliban time and the destruction of the archives has been arranged, which contained irreplaceable tapes with music and politics programs of 40 years. The bands seemed hopelessly lost, until the BBC reported in 2002 that they had not only survived the Taliban time, but also the bombing during the U.S. intervention in November 2001.

After the departure of the Taliban Radio Kabul took his broadcasting again.