The Washington Post, September 1st, 1987
Radio Free Afghanistan, the U.S.-funded station established by Congress in 1985, will begin broadcasting Sunday in Pashto, one of the two principal languages of Afghanistan, sources connected with the station said yesterday. Six hours of programming in Pashto will effectively double the amount of broadcasting time in which the radio beams uncensored news and information to the Soviet-occupied nation. The radio has been broadcasting in Dari, the country's other main language, for six hours a week since 1985. The radio is controlled by the Board for International Broadcasting (BIB), a private co...
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