Afghan paper lashes out at chief justice for targeting cable TV not crime.

(From BBC Monitoring International Reports)

An Afghan newspaper has lashed out at the chief justice, Fazl Hadi Shinwari, over a recent decree banning cable TV viewing and said that he should instead focus his energies on fighting real crime, some of which was being carried out by government officials. The following is an excerpt from a report entitled "Cable and Chief Justice" by Afghan newspaper Mashal-e Demokrasi on 6 February.

Cable [TV channels] issues, which were banned by a decree issued by the esteemed chief justice of Afghanistan [Fazl Hadi Shinwari], are the hottest of topics these days. Let us first see what cable TV is, and what its disadvantages are. And we will consider a series of crimes committed in …