Racy foreign films prompt cable ban in Afghanistan
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Some say Afghani society may not be ready yet to interpret correctly what they see in movies from India and the West.
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Pakistani cinema-goers may get to watch Bollywood films if the government agrees to remove a ban on them.
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By David Zurawik, The Baltimore Sun  Sep. 6--A feature on Taliban resurgence in Afghanistan reported in  breathless tabloid fashion by correspondent Lara Logan. An essay by filmmaker  Morgan Spurlock in which he decried the lack of civil discourse.
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Text of report by Indian newspaper The Telegraph on 5 March  [Unattributed report: "Militant Axe on 'Obscene' Channels"]  Srinagar, March 4 - Cable operators in the Valley have switched off some entertainment channels after militant groups Al Madina and Al Badr issued a diktat.
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Indonesia has banned a documentary on  the once volatile Aceh province from being screened at an  international film festival on the grounds that it could  disturb security, the festival's organizers said.
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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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Afghanistan's Islamic council has told President Hamid Karzai to stop foreign aid groups from converting locals to Christianity and also demanded the reintroduction of public executions.
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A journalist in Afghanistan is sentenced to death for distributing blasphemous material.
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Media organizations say Britainâs tight reporting restrictions hamper their ability to cover terrorism stories.
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By MATTHEW LEE  WASHINGTON - Fictional gay cowboys and a faux reporter from Kazakhstan suffered human rights abuses in 2006 as crackdowns on flesh and blood victims were extended to the Internet, award- winning films and noted plays worldwide, the State Department says.
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, June 7 -- Under mounting domestic and international pressure, the Pakistani government on Thursday suspended stringent media restrictions that critics said were designed to muzzle the free press.
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Afghanistan has banned the import and exhibition of "The Kite Runner", a film about the troubled friendship of two Afghan boys, on the grounds that it could incite violence.
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HONG KONG -- China has decided to restrict the broadcasting of Internet videos _ including those posted on video-sharing Web sites _ to sites run by state-controlled companies and require providers to report questionable content to the government.
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China has pulled Li Yuâs âLost in Beijing,â a movie whose sexually explicit scenes were already censored, from theaters and banned its producer from the film business for two years, The Associated Press reported. The ruling against âLost in Beijingâ accused the filmmakers of publishing unapproved pornographic scenes from the movie on the Internet and on DVDs, the official China News Service Web site reported. The filmâs producer, Fang Li, said he believed that Chinese officials faced political pressure to act amid the rapid spread of uncensored versions of âLost in Beijingâ and another sexually explicit film, Ang Leeâs âLust, Caution,â on the Internet and in pirated DVDs.
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KABUL -- While trolling the Internet last October, Afghan journalism student Sayed Perwiz Kambakhsh came across some articles that questioned the limits of women's rights under Islam. According to Afghan prosecutors, he downloaded the articles and circulated them on campus.
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Text of editorial entitled "Freedom of expression, the government's most notable achievement" published by Afghan state- run newspaper Etefaq-e Eslam on 6 March  The freedom of expression currently enjoyed by the media is one the most notable achievements of the government.
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BRUSSELS, May 21 (IPS) - When archive material showing Osama bin Laden  hiding in an underground fortress is aired  on Western news  bulletins, the perception that Afghanistan is a lawless periphery  is  reinforced.