The government ordered an Afghan TV station to suspend broadcasts of Al-Jazeera English language programs. The Ministry of Information and Culture did not provide reasons for the order.
Al-JazeeraThe government ordered an Afghan TV station to suspend broadcasts of Al-Jazeera English language programs, the station's director said Tuesday. A statement from Lemar TV said the Ministry of Information and Culture, which oversees media in Afghanistan, did not provide reasons for the order.
The station complied, but contested the order before the Supreme Court on Tuesday. The Lemar statement said the ministry sent a
letter to the attorney general's office stating that Al-Jazeera is "inflicting a killer blow to the cultural order and the legal authority of the government."
Lemar's director, Saad Mohseni, emailed a copy of Minister of Information and Culture Abdul Karim Khurram's letter to The Associated Press, but its authenticity could not immediately be verified.
Mohseni said the attorney general's office sent a letter on Sunday ordering Lemar to stop broadcasting Al-Jazeera. Lemar suspended the shows Sunday afternoon.
A spokeswoman for Al-Jazeera English in Doha, Qatar, said it also had received a letter from Khurram, which stated that the suspension was a licensing issue and has nothing to do with programming.
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