The Voice of America (VOA) will debut two 30-minute television news programmes to Afghanistan beginning September 30. The Saturday-through-Thursday newscasts, which will air in the Dari and Pashto languages in a one-hour block titled TV Ashna (Friend), will offer a new source of regional and world news to Afghanistan’s emergent television market.
TV Ashna will also feature interviews with Afghan and American policy makers and political, economic and security analysts on issues of importance to the people of Afghanistan. The hour-long block will be divided into two different news programs for Afghanistan’s two national languages.
“VOA has proven to be extremely popular on the radio in Afghanistan,” said VOA Director David S Jackson. “These new shows will now allow us to offer television viewers the same kind of objective and comprehensive news and information that they have come to expect from the Voice of America.”
VOA’s Shaista Mangal will host the Pashto program and Lina Rozbih will host the Dari program from Washington, DC, with reports from Afghanistan and other cities around the world.
Radio Television Afghanistan (RTA) will initially air the new program at 4:00 p.m. local time in Afghanistan.
VOA’s Radio Ashna programming currently reaches millions of people daily with a 12-hour program in Dari and Pashto via FM, AM and shortwave radio.
(Source: VOA)
on May 5th, 2008 at 13:34
VOA’s Shaista Mangal will host the Pashto program and Lina Rozbih will host the Dari program from Washington, DC, with reports from Afghanistan and other cities around the world.
Radio Television Afghanistan (RTA) will initially air the new program at 4:00 p.m. local time in Afghanistan.
VOA’s Radio Ashna programming currently reaches millions of people daily with a 12-hour program in Dari and Pashto via FM, AM and shortwave radio.
(Source: VOA)
on Oct 14th, 2009 at 11:24
Ashna television telecasts are very nice and it will be good if they have an independent tv channel for Afghan people, and in that chanel there most be educationl, health, animal world and news. Thanks
on Apr 14th, 2010 at 04:11
No me interesaba la guerra de Afghanistan, pero desde que ví a Shaista Mangal en un programa de la VOA (en idioma pashto), no dejo de seguirla en Internet.
Es muy ATRACTIVA esta linda fémina.
Quisiera escribir en inglés, pero mi redacción en ese idioma de Shakespeare es malísima.
Mmmmmm…creo que somos los únicos 3 que leyeron este artículo.
on May 15th, 2011 at 10:05
I love watching ashna tellevision..espicialy…when I here a voice shaiasta..mangle..but now cannot I access..online..