âThe Kite Runnerâ Film Outlawed in Afghanistan
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The Culture Ministry has quietly banned the import of the film based on the best-selling novel about childhood betrayal, ethnic tension and sexual predation in Afghanistan.
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KABUL, Afghanistan, Dec. 27 Afghanistan formally expelled a senior U.N. official and the acting head of the European Union's mission there for allegedly meeting with Taliban militants. via Earth Times
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DOHA: State television channels of Qatar and Jordan announced on Saturday that they would not broadcast a series on a love story set in Taliban-ruled Afghanistan for âtechnical reasonsâ, a day after Islamists issued threats against the Jordanian
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KABUL, Afghanistan  -- Western pop videos, India's Bollywood movies and even Charlton Heston's &quot;The Ten Commandments&quot; have Afghanistan's fledgling cable TV stations in hot water.
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The author of The Kite Runner says he agrees with the decision to delay a film version of his novel.
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An enthralling documentary follows the Afghan politician Malalai Joya through the final months of campaigning for her countryâs National Assembly in 2005.
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DENPASAR, Indonesia  - Indonesia's resort island of Bali has banned screenings of a film on the 2002 bombings there because it could "reopen old wounds", a provincial film board official said on Thursday.
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The Canadian government stopped transferring prisoners in Afghanistan to local Afghan authorities after witnessing evidence of torture, according to a newly released government letter.
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Oggi il corteo per la liberazione del giornalista rapito in Afghanistan dai talebani e accusato di essere una spia
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Kabul Express is the first international feature film to have been shot entirely in Kabul after the end of the Taliban.
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After a week-long advertising blitz, Jordan has abruptly cancelled plans to broadcast a soap opera about Afghanistan after an internet threat to &quot;strike&quot; everyone from actors to TV executives if the show portrayed the Taliban in a negative light.
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Afghanistan's historic presidential  election closed on Saturday without any of the feared  large-scale violence but the vote was thrown into turmoil  instead by a boycott called by most of the candidates.
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Pair deported after Kabul government denounces them for 'negotiating' with Taliban
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After months of worrying and diplomatic wrangling, the movie studio that is releasing âThe Kite Runnerâ has whisked to safety four young actors.
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Discovered in a refugee camp, feisty Grandma Hamida has gained fame in Afghanistan, but not riches - despite a role in 'The Kite Runner.'
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Police in military-run Myanmar have banned DVD vendors from selling the new "Rambo" film about a Vietnam war veteran fighting the junta's soldiers, but that hasn't stopped people from trying to buy it.
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Deepa Mehta's film loses out to Germany.