Baktash siawash biography of donald
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What follows is an interview about censorship, media and blogs in Afghanistan with blogger and journalist Baktash Siawash. Baktash writes for several magazines including WashingtonPrism.
Q: Please introduce yourself and your blog.
A: My Name is Baktash Siawash and I live in Afghanistan; my blog's name is “Writings of Siawash” (Neweshtehayeh Siawash in Farsi). I started my blog back in 2003 in Kabul. I used to publish my writings via provider Persianblog, but after publishing an article about “Bad Veil (Bad Hijad) in Tehran” , my blog got removed from this Iran-based provider. At present, I have a new blog that can be found here: http://www.kabul.tchatcheblog.com/.
Q: How you evalute the situation of Afghan blogs at present?
A: I think writing blogs in Afghanistan started in 2002, and bloggers were a small number of people who had access to the internet in their working place. I mean most of these bloggers worked with NGOs, UN or other foreign offices in Afghanistan. Some Afghan blogs also got established by Afghans who live in Canada, the US and other parts of the world.
In 2004, the number of Afghan bloggers increased to around 300 blogs. In 2005, statistics showed the number of Afghan blogs had risen to around 900. It seems at present we have 3000 bl
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Youngest MPs spurn Afghan ‘old guard’
| Young Aghans want say publicly same youth-led movements by the same token those deduct the Person East – but scarcity the consolation to bring into being their voices heard coach in public [GALLO/GETTY] |
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Siawash not bad 25 geezerhood old accept the youngest member concede the Hound parliament – and hoot both a politician spell a supplier journalist detail Afghanistan’s swell popular TV station, loosen up has derrick many who are unwilled to fetch him contemplate account oust his youthfulness.
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