Kunduz: As the Taliban fighters approached, the employees of Radio Roshani fled. They locked the door behind them, and the station kept airing pre-recorded programs, seemingly in defiance. On the afternoon playlist was a feature to encourage Afghan women to take part in politics. It never played. "The radio was silenced at 2 pm," remembered the station's director Sediqa Sherzai, who was listening to the programming shortly after escaping the compound. By then, Taliban militants had taken control of the station. When the Taliban briefly ruled this north-eastern city last month, they not only targeted government officials and buildings. They also sought to reverse the...
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