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Bakhtar News Agency is the official state news agency of the Afghan government, based in Kabul. The agency is a major source of news for all media in Afghanistan, gathering domestic and international news and providing information to outlets.

The government had planned to make the agency independent of government control in 2004 before elections.[1]

In 2002, Agence France-Presse established a satellite link providing news information to the Bakhtar News Agency.[2]

See also

References

  1. ^ Great Britain Foreign and Commonwealth Office. Human rights annual report 2004.
  2. ^ Afghan Bakhtar news agency, France Presse resume cooperation. Asia Africa Intelligence Wire. September 14, 2002.

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