page_title: Shamshad TV
section_title: Logo
hierarchical_section_title: Shamshad TV / Logo
caption_attribution_description: Fazel Fazel, owner of Shamshad TV, talks with Australian Ambassador Paul Foley during a Mine Action Day event featuring the work of photographer Marco Grob at the U.S. Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan on Wednesday, May 4, 2011.
context_page_description: Shamshad Radio & Television Network is based in Afghanistan and Dubai. Shamshad was launched in early 2006 and broadcasts 24 hours a day. Shamshad TV is one of the most popular Pashto language television stations in Afghanistan.
  Shamshad's broadcast area covers a large portion of the country where ethnic Pashtuns live and also covering isolated areas. Shamshad programs are mainly in Pashto language providing educational TV shows, news, family dramas, musical shows, comedy programs, children's game shows, women empowerment programs, Islamic educational programs, political and current affairs programs, entertainment programs, sports programs, criminal incidents programs and entertaining programs to both local areas of Afghanistan as well as other countries via satellite, IPTV and local transmitters.
  Shamshad is locally available in Kabul and Eastern provinces like Ningrahar and Konar. It is also broadcast in Kunduz and Mazar e Sharif Northern zone of Afghanistan. Signals are transmitted to Herat, Kandahar, Helmand, Paktia, Ghazni, Khost and other part of the country.
context_section_description: The Shamshad TV logo is a decorative representation of the network's name written using Pashto. It was selected by the founder, Fazel Karim Fazel. It's the combination of two SS and three dots on the top, that represent Sheen in Pashto, and the two SS are Sham Shad.
caption: Fazal Karim Fazal speaking with Marco Grob at the U.S. Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan
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