A female television anchor even interviewed a Taliban official on camera Tuesday in the channel’s studio.
Tolo News, Afghanistan’s most popular 24-hour news channel, resumed its broadcast with female anchors on Tuesday and one even interviewed a Taliban official, a stunning sight considering how much women’s rights were stifled under their previous rule. The channel’s head of news Miraqa Popal made the announcement in a tweet. “Our female presenter is interviewing a Taliban media team member live in our studio,” Tolo’s head of news, Miraqa Popal, wrote on Twitter. Earlier on, Popal said: “We resumed our broadcast with female anchors today. @TOLOnews #Afghanistan.” Popal said, adding a photo of a female anchor presenting the news on the channel to his tweet. Beheshta Arghand, a female television anchor for Tolo, interviewed the Taliban official on camera on Tuesday in the channel’s studio, asking about the situation in Kabul and the Taliban’s house searches in the capital. However, CNN reported on Monday that the homes of two female journalists were visited by Taliban fighters on Sunday and that both of them were shaken psychologically. Citing sources, the news channel reported that one of the journalists said she was “very worried about my safety and that of my family.
