Afghan Taliban have exposed negative propaganda by allow a female to host morning show at TOLO TV. An Afghan morning show, which is aired by the country’s leading television channel, TOLO TV, has resumed its broadcast with a female host.
Saad Mohseni, director of MOBY Group which operates TOLO channel, posted the news on social media on Thursday.
There have been concerns that the Taliban will strictly limit the public participation of women under their rule. In the past, the Taliban had labeled TOLO TV as a propaganda network.
A top Taliban official sat down with a female Afghan TV reporter for a live, in-person interview on Tuesday as part of the militant group’s effort to project a more moderate image to the world as it asserts control over Afghanistan.
The interview between TOLO News host Beheshta Arghand and senior Taliban representative Mawlawi Abdulhaq Hemad was the first broadcast conducted by a woman reporter since the Taliban’s takeover. Arghand asked Hemad about the Taliban’s home searches in Kabul and the general situation on the ground, The New York Times reported.
“The entire world now recognizes that the Taliban are the real rulers of the country,” Hemad told Arghand during their 17-minute interview.
“I am still astonished that people are afraid of Taliban,” he added.
Other female Afghan reporters for TOLO News, an independent news channel, delivered reports from the streets of Kabul following the Taliban’s takeover.
“Our brave female journalists out and about in Kabul this morning,” Saad Mohseni, the head of TOLO’s parent company, said in a Tuesday tweet.
