Sunday 17 April 2016

Taliban Develops Smartphone App to enhance Propaganda Efforts

by means of Bloomberg information (Eltaf Najafizada)-
This story is for analysis purposes simplest.
(Bloomberg) -- Afghanistans Taliban guerrillas developed an online utility for Android smartphones, signaling the militant neighborhood is fitting more proficient at the usage of web and instant applied sciences to increase visibility.
The launch of the app turned into reported via the U.S.-based mostly web page Intel group, which monitors jihadist social media, on Friday. The Pashto language app includes content material equivalent to professional statements and movies from the Taliban, which has sought insurgency within the country for more than 14 years due to the fact it was ousted in 2001 with support from the U.S. The app can also be downloaded from Googles Play shop.
The app adds to the Talibans digital campaign to attract more audience international. The movement has an up-to-date web page run in 5 languages together with English and Arabic, in addition to Twitter and facebook bills proposing daily reports on its insurgency. The groups website and Twitter bills have been taken down a couple of instances as the Afghan govt seeks to keep away from the businesses communications efforts.
"The app will assist Taliban to additional psychologically weaken Afghanistan by way of their propaganda reviews, said Jawid Kohistani, an impartial Kabul-based mostly safety analyst.
Taliban spokesmen didnt return calls to their cellphones. Sediq Sediqqi, a spokesman for the Afghan indoors Ministry, spoke of through telephone he wasnt privy to the Taliban app.
To contact the reporter on this story: Eltaf Najafizada in Kabul at enajafizada1@bloomberg.internet. To contact the editors liable for this story: Daniel Ten Kate at dtenkate@bloomberg.web, Ville Heiskanen, Andrew Blackman
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