The Taliban have allegedly purchased satellite jammers from Iran to disrupt the last remaining independent television channel reporting on the regime’s brutal crackdown on human rights.
Iran’s assistance helped the Taliban leaders acquire orbital jammers for the satellite stations of the Afghanistan International Television and shut down broadcast for more than a week, AITV’s executive editor Harun Najafizada told The Independent.
The channel is popular among Afghans for their critical coverage of the country’s hardline Islamist regime.
Taliban officials reportedly sent disruptive signals from a ground station within Afghanistan to the satellite, interfering with its broadcast. Hundreds of people in Afghanistan saw a blank screen from 5 September to 13 September before the channel shifted to a different satellite frequency.
> say they reject civilisation > Ignore the resistance movements and organisations actively fighting Taliban rule > Ignore the independent media organisations being crushed by the Taliban for speaking out against the Taliban > Ignore the people fleeing Afghanistan every day because of the Taliban. > Ignores the geopolitical fuckery that gave rise to the modern state of Afghanistan. > Ignores that the Taliban was formed from the Mujahedeen, an organisation funded by the US to fight the Soviets.Yes, clearly the Afghani people are savages who cannot be redeemed. There’s no external factors for the clusterfuck that is the Taliban. Anyone who says otherwise is a liberal hippy. /s