Radio station Urooj once teemed with journalists producing news bulletins, but since the Taliban came to town, Ebrahim Parhar sits alone, broadcasting hours of religious sermons. Parhar launched Urooj, which means 'The Rising' in Pashto, in the western city of Farah six years ago, carefully selecting a diverse range of programmes for an audience long deprived of media. 'We had religious, political, social, and music programmes,' he told AFP, adding that up until two months ago, the station broadcast different programmes for 19 hours a day.

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