 The Afghan government has fined a privately run television station 1,000 dollars for broadcasting âunIslamicâ material, including raunchy clips from Bollywood movies, officials said on Saturday. A committee within the ministry of information and culture that monitors private television stations ruled against the Afghan TV channel last week, committee secretary Zia Wazir said. Wazir declined to give details of the offending material, saying only: âThey had broadcast stuff that was against Afghan culture and it was unIslamic, but mainly it was unIslamic.â âThe channel was fined 50,000 afghanis (1,000 dollars),â he said. Another ministry official said the channel had been accused of showing footage of half-naked people, including clips from Bollywood movies. Officials at Afghan TV declined to comment. Afghanistanâs post-Taliban constitution grants freedom of expression but conservative circles within the judiciary often pressure the government to adhere to what they call âIslamic valuesâ |