History
Radio Free Europe/ Radio Liberty first launched this service on October 1, 1985 during the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan (1979-1989). Its purpose was to "to bring objective and uncensored news and information to the population and resistance forces of Soviet-occupied Afghanistan." The service initially consisted of twice-weekly thirty minute broadcasts in Dari and later expanded to hour-long broadcasts five days a week in Pashto and Dari. RFA was the first expansion of RFE/RL’s broadcast area in thirty years. Broadcasts stopped in 1993 for budgetary purposes and began again in 2001 following the U.S. Invasion of Afghanistan. Congress authorized the appropriation of eight million dollars in operating costs for FY 2002 and nine million dollars in capital costs that would fund the construction of a new shortwave transmitter in Kuwait.
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