Radio Free Afghanistan

Radio Free Afghanistan is a radio service broadcast by the United States government in Afghanistan, an extension of the Radio Free Europe program (broadcasting from Prague). It has existed during two separate periods: from 1985 to 1993, it broadcast anti-Soviet messages in order to encourage resistance to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan; from 2002 to the present, it broadcasts messages to encourage a transition to democratic government following the October 2001 U.S. invasion of Afghanistan.

The station (as of 2006) broadcasts 12 hours a day in the Pushtu and Dari languages. It describes as its mission: "to promote and sustain democratic values and institutions in Afghanistan by disseminating news, factual information and ideas".ref|azadiradio

See also

* Voice of America, another U.S. government radio service that broadcasts in Afghanistan (among other places)

Notes

# Radio Free Afghanistan, [http://www.azadiradio.org azadiradio.org front page] , retrieved September 13, 2005.

External links

* [http://www.azadiradio.org/ Azadi Radio official website]