{"id":1497,"date":"2011-08-01T12:04:14","date_gmt":"2011-08-01T17:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=1497"},"modified":"2011-08-01T12:05:59","modified_gmt":"2011-08-01T17:05:59","slug":"radio-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/radio-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Radio Afghanistan now on shortwave"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>(Source: Bakhtar News Agency<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Sunday, July 31, 2011 Kabul (BIA) Dr. Sayed Makhdoom Raheen Minister of Information and Culture inaugurated the foreign section of Radio Afghanistan yesterday.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Dr. Sayed Makhdoom Raheen Minister of Information and Culture inaugurated the foreign section of Radio Afghanistan yesterday. This section in the first place will air program in English and Urdu languages each night from 8:00 to 9:00 pm. Opening the section Dr. Raheen said that this section has been revived with the efforts of the director general and employees of the radio and in the first place it will air English and Urdu programs and followed by Arabic and Russian programs and subsequently French and German programs. According to Dr. Raheen revival of this program shall assist in recognition of Afghanistan to its outside friends and will inform them about our country\u2019s events. Abdul Ghani Mudaqaq head of the publications department of Radio Afghanistan said that this program shall cover Asia, Africa and Europe regions. According to officials of the radio ten years delay in the radio programs was inactivity of the short wave in Yakatout. Ghulam Nabi Farahi, Deen Mohammad Mobarez Rashidi deputy ministers of information and culture, Zareen Anzur general director of National Radio-TV and some other officials participated. Radio Afghanistan started its publications in 1304 and after a short lapse restarted its publications in 1320 and now it is 20 hours on the air. An employees of the radio said that Afghanistan was the first country in the region which had radio publication on that time.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Additionally, I just noticed this same story in RNW Media Network’s feed<\/a>. They had an additional update with frequencies:<\/p>\n

Thanks to Mikhail Timofeyev in St Petersburg, Russia who reports English at 1530 UTC on 6100 kHz, followed by Urdu at 1600, so the schedule is confirmed as 1530-1600 English and 1600-1630 Urdu.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Source: Bakhtar News Agency) Sunday, July 31, 2011 Kabul (BIA) Dr. Sayed Makhdoom Raheen Minister of Information and Culture inaugurated the foreign section of Radio Afghanistan yesterday. Dr. Sayed Makhdoom Raheen Minister of Information and Culture inaugurated the foreign section of Radio Afghanistan yesterday. This section in the first place will air program in English […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[56,438],"tags":[505,504],"class_list":["post-1497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasters","category-schedules","tag-radio-afghanistan","tag-rta"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-o9","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9945,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/polish-radio-external-service-drops-german-language-programs\/","url_meta":{"origin":1497,"position":0},"title":"Polish Radio External Service drops German language programs","author":"Thomas","date":"June 18, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post reader, Dominik, who writes: I think you may be interested in the recent changes in Polish Radio External Service. 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