The media body in a press conference in Kabul on Tuesday, March 15, 2022, said that Afghan media outlets have been affected the most after the Taliban takeover as a result only 290 media outlets are active in the war-torn country.
Head of Afghanistan’s National House of Journalists Sayed Yaseen Mateen said that reason behind the mass closure of media was economic woes and migration of professional media workers in the country.
Apart from the economic woes and stoppage of foreign support of the media in Afghanistan, the lack of access to information cited by Afghan journalists is said to be another big issue for media in the country.
On the other hand, the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan has always denied the claim and added that the closure of media outlets in Afghanistan is owing to the stoppage of their donors. They denied having restricted Afghan journalists and media.
Earlier, the IEA’s chief spokesperson Zabiullah Mujahid said that they are making efforts to attract back international donors to back Afghan media.
