News item: Afghans take to the airwaves

[CrankyYankee]

(From the "Stars & Stripes")

U.S.-backed radio station broadcasting in Mehtar Lam


MEHTAR LAM, Afghanistan — Afghans in the Laghman province capital of Mehtar Lam are making waves. Radio waves, that is.

Thanks to funding and equipment provided by a U.S. Provincial Reconstruction Team, the United States’ Agency for International Development and other agencies, a fully functioning FM radio station is now up and running.

Afghans in this eastern province can tune to the station to hear news, music, health tips, educational programming, sports news, programs geared toward women and more.

http://www.stripes.com/article.asp?article=31829

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> (From the "Stars & Stripes")
>
> U.S.-backed radio station broadcasting in Mehtar Lam
>
>
> MEHTAR LAM, Afghanistan — Afghans in the Laghman province
> capital of Mehtar Lam are making waves. Radio waves, that
> is.
>
> Thanks to funding and equipment provided by a U.S.
> Provincial Reconstruction Team, the United States’ Agency
> for International Development and other agencies, a fully
> functioning FM radio station is now up and running.
>
> Afghans in this eastern province can tune to the station to
> hear news, music, health tips, educational programming,
> sports news, programs geared toward women and more.
>
> http://www.stripes.com/article.asp?article=31829
>

Good to see progress with the media situation in Afghanistan. Hopefuly more music and information stations will pop up around this new democrary