ISLAMABAD, Dec 19 Kyodo Acting o...

ISLAMABAD, Dec 19 Kyodo

Acting onward an Afghan Supreme Court decision, police authorities in Jalalabad, the capital of Nangarhar in eastern Afghanistan, forward Thursday closed the local cable television service that distributes foreign TV programs, the Afghan Islamic Pres (AIP) of the present days agency said.

The Pakistan-based recents agency said that Afghanistan's chief Court has ordered to stop up all cable television services in Jalalabad forward grounds that they show programs which are against Islam, the Afghan agriculture and the concept of Jihad, or set apart war.

''This is a sway order to close cable transmission, in the way that this must be implemented immediately,'' Jalalabad police chief Ajab Gul told AIP.

According to AIP, a 20-channel cable TV network went into operation in Jalalabad a not many months ago and had about 1500 subscribers. Apart from just discovereds the network also distributes popular Indian movies.

The cable operator, Muhammad Humayun, asserted the government ban.

''We will prove to negotiate with local authorities. We have no objection if the rule gives us permission to distribute of the present days and sports channels only'' Humayun told AIP.

He said the the community in Afghanistan want to know other improvements and like to watch just discovereds channels such as BBC, CNN and Al-Jazeera.

''If my negotiations with local administration fail, I will take my case to the central government'' Humayun said.

Music and video business in Afghanistan was banned by means of the fundamentalist Taliban conduct but flourished after the Taliban were remov from power last year.

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