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Country | Afghanistan |
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Headquarters | Kabul |
History | |
Launched | 22 February 2011 |
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Website | https://khurshid.tv/ |
Khurshid TV ( Dari: تلویزیون خورشید) is an Afghan general entertainment television station based in Kabul.
The channel was launched in 2011. [1] The name of the channel is a Persian name meaning sun (see Khorshid).
Two Khurshid TV employees were wounded when their van was targeted by a bomb in Kabul in August 2019. [2] During the May 2020 Afghanistan attacks, a vehicle belonging to Khurshid TV was apparently the target in a roadside bomb in Kabul. A journalist at Khurshid TV was killed along with the driver. [3] The attack was widely condemned by Afghan journalists, the government and internationally. [4] In 2021, Pahjwok Afghan News reported that some Khurshid employees had not been paid by the station. [5] After the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan, Khurshid TV went off air. [6]
The station's CEO was Mohammad Rafi Rafiq Sediqi. Sediqi died in November 2020 from suspected gas poisoning. [7]
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Country | Afghanistan |
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Headquarters | Kabul |
History | |
Launched | 22 February 2011 |
Links | |
Website | https://khurshid.tv/ |
Khurshid TV ( Dari: تلویزیون خورشید) is an Afghan general entertainment television station based in Kabul.
The channel was launched in 2011. [1] The name of the channel is a Persian name meaning sun (see Khorshid).
Two Khurshid TV employees were wounded when their van was targeted by a bomb in Kabul in August 2019. [2] During the May 2020 Afghanistan attacks, a vehicle belonging to Khurshid TV was apparently the target in a roadside bomb in Kabul. A journalist at Khurshid TV was killed along with the driver. [3] The attack was widely condemned by Afghan journalists, the government and internationally. [4] In 2021, Pahjwok Afghan News reported that some Khurshid employees had not been paid by the station. [5] After the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan, Khurshid TV went off air. [6]
The station's CEO was Mohammad Rafi Rafiq Sediqi. Sediqi died in November 2020 from suspected gas poisoning. [7]