Three Afghan journalists fined for using wrong language
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KABUL: Three Afghan journalists working for the government-owned media have been fined five days salary for using words from the wrong language in reports, the culture ministry said on Monday.
The three were punished for “not observing cultural and Islamic principles,” said a letter issued by the ministry. The letter did not provide details and the ministry could not explain how the reporters had contravened Islam.
One of the journalists, Abdul Basir Babai, told the AFP from Mazar-i-Sharif that he had been reprimanded for using three words from Persian, as used in Iran, instead of their local equivalent derived from Pashtun, the language of the Afghan majority. These were the words for “university”, “students” and “certificate,” which he used in a report last week about the graduation of university students, Babai said.
I never heard of anything so silly in my life.
