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Afghanistan's Minister of Information and Culture, Abdul Khuram, has threatened to prosecute television executives if they continue to air shows that offend public morality. The announcement came after the nation's Islamic Council of Scholars began a campaign to get numerous Indian television shows, mostly soap operas, off the air. They accuse the shows of "spreading immorality and un-Islamic culture."

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