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Afghans embrace social media as NATO pullout nears

AFP

Ten years after the fall of the Taliban, who banned modern technology as un-Islamic, the use of social media in Afghanistan is booming as politicians, warlords and even militants rush to get their message across. The hardline Islamists who ruled Afghanistan from 1996 to 2001 and forbade the use of…