Afghanistan pulls cable channels
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Cable TV channels showing Bollywood movies and music videos are taken off air in Afghanistan by the government.
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Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf withdraws new media restrictions after protests and foreign criticism.
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ISLAMABAD, 25 August 2004 - Afghan President Hamid Karzai yesterday announced he would free the last 400 Pakistanis who fought alongside the Taleban and had been languishing in decrepit Afghan jails since late 2001.
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KISMAYO, Somalia  - Islamist gunmen who captured   the Somali port of Kismayo have forcibly closed a private   broadcaster which they accuse of distorting news about protests   against the takeover, journalists said on Friday.
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Television stations in two Arab states have abandoned plans to broadcast a soap opera set in Taliban-ruled Afghanistan, after an internet threat to &quot;strike&quot; against the actors and executives involved.
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U.S. regulators on Thursday dealt a  blow to television broadcasters by rejecting requests that  cable operators be required to carry more than one of the  stations' primary channels.
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President Gen. Pervez Musharraf on Saturday withdrew new curbs on media covering Pakistan's growing political crisis, backing down after a week of nationwide protests by journalists and opposition parties.
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The goverment confirmed Thursday it is to withdraw more than 600 troops from Bosnia-Hercegovina, amid claims it is being forced to &quot;scratch around&quot; for extra manpower to send to Afghanistan.
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Get INQ7 breaking news on your Smart mobile phone in the Philippines. Send INQ7 BREAKING to 386. KABUL, Afghanistan -- Three years after the hardline Taliban militia were swept from power in Afghanistan, their
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Germany's biggest television network, ARD, said on Friday it planned to pull out its two correspondents in Iraq after a foreign ministry warning that German journalists could be singled out for kidnappings.
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The name of Court TV is getting disbarred.
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The Taleban oust Afghan forces from a district headquarters in western Farah province, police say.
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai  abruptly canceled a speech to a state-run think tank in  Pakistan on Tuesday, but officials denied security was a  reason.
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Federal regulators Thursday rejected a request by broadcasters to require cable operators to carry multiple digital channel offerings from local television stations.
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Sources at the channel's directorate said the transmissions had been switched off at the instruction of the State Language Inspection.
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An opposition-aligned TV station forced off the air by President Hugo Chavez is considering taking its programming to cable, the channel's top executive said.
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Bangladesh&#39;s emergency government Thursday shut down the country&#39;s only 24-hour private news channel, officials said, just weeks after it was warned against airing &quot;provocative&quot; news during last month&#39;s nationwide student unrest.