Perfectly understandable, if your goal is Allah and illiteracy, both of which go hand in hand.
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At least 95 percent of bookstores, publishing houses and libraries have closed in the past two months in Kabul. This was reported on October 3 by the TOLOnews TV channel.The reason for the closure was the difficult economic situation in Afghanistan. According to the organizers of book fairs, the number of buyers decreased by 90 percent in the capital, in the regions this figure may be even higher.
"People who simply do not have the means to buy bread and clothes have no time for books now," said Said Ahmad Said, president of the Association of Afghan Publishers .
Afghan poet and writer Javid Farhad described the current situation as a huge catastrophe for the country's development.
Before the radical Taliban movement (an organization banned in the Russian Federation) came to power in the country, 90 publishing houses and 280 bookstores operated in Kabul alone. In total, there were 180 publishing houses and 525 bookstores in the country.
Earlier, IA REGNUM reported that the Taliban called on Turkey to take part in projects for the reconstruction and development of Afghanistan.
70% of Afghan media outlets stopped working since Taliban takeover
[KhaamaPress] National Association of Journalists in Kabul said that due to financial problems, 70 percent of media outlets stopped working in Afghanistan since the Taliban
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...took over the country.
The national association of journalists in a presser in Kabul on Sunday, October 03 said that they found the statistics after conducting an online survey in 28 provinces of Afghanistan.
They said that 1,500 Afghan journalists had taken part in the survey.
As per the statistics of the organization, 67% of the Afghan journalists have lost their jobs and 33% of them are busy working under acute pressure and in tough situations.
The Head of the national association of journalists said Masroor Lutfi said that most of the Afghan media that are active are confronting dire economic and financial situations.
"40% of the Afghan journalists are worried about their safety in Afghanistan and rest of them living a difficult life as they have lost their jobs." Said Lutfi.