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Reuters
Reuters
Politics
Charlotte Greenfield

Taliban ban BBC's local language services in Afghanistan - broadcaster

FILE PHOTO: Pedestrians walk past a BBC logo at Broadcasting House in London, Britain, January 29, 2020. REUTERS/Henry Nicholls//File Photo

The Taliban have banned BBC television news in three main languages of Afghanistan from being broadcast, the British news organisation said.

A spokesman for the Taliban administration's Ministry of Culture and Information did not respond to a request for comment.

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