VOA Director Danforth Austin said Deewa Radio was simply seeking to report the news in a way that was credible to listeners from the same ethnic Pashtun group as the Taliban. He told The Times that ...

VOA said recently it has launched the first full news hour of a new radio broadcasting service to the Afghanistan-Pakistan border region. “In the coming months VOA Deewa (Light) Radio will expand to ...

Mukarram Khan Aatif, a reporter for Deewa Radio, a Pashto-language service of the Voice of America, was killed by a gunman Tuesday near Peshawar, Pakistan. He was praying in a mosque when killed, ...

Unidentified gunmen shot dead tribal journalist Mukarram Khan Aatif near the northern city of Peshawar today. Aatif was working for Voice of America's (VOA) Pashto-language Deewa Radio and Pakistan’s ...