widthe Saad Mohseni was contacted by phone. We want to know what his employees are doing and what his company is doing. Mohseni said the situation was “surprisingly calm” and almost seemed “business as usual.” “We have to wait and see what happens. It is too early to make a decision before the Taliban take full control. This is both good news and bad news.”
Saad Mohseni’s “business as usual” is by no means normal under local standards. Mohseni is the head of Moby Group, a media company in Kabul. He founded it with his two brothers in 2002. Moby Group owns a radio station, two production companies, an advertising subsidiary and Tolo TV, the country’s most important television station. Tolo TV is the spokesperson of Free Afghanistan, runs independent critical news, and represents modern entertainment.The most famous is probably the show “Star of Afghanistan”, which works on the same principle as “Germany is looking for a superstar” RTLThe Moby Group has about 400 employees, men and women appear in front of the camera, which has never been taken for granted in Afghanistan. This is not critical news either. This spring, three female journalists were murdered in Afghanistan. In the past few years, 11 Tolo TV employees have been killed, of which 7 were killed when a suicide bomber attacked a company bus in January 2016.
