been unthinkable under the taliban from an american idolstyle singing competition to music videos soap operas and even afghanistans first presidential election debatesmost dramatically tolo and other afghan networks gave space and opportunities to women who were shut out from public life education and workplaces by the talibannow there are fears of a rollbacktolos najafizada told afp the entertainment arm of the company has already pulled back on some contentthe taliban have yet to issue any formal directives to the media and outlets have mainly relied on selfcensorship to avoid upsetting the islamistssome are also planning for contingenciesthe moby group is considering options to operate from overseas if there is a crackdown on toloceo mohseni has said orders such as a ban on women journalists or censorship would be a red linemeanwhile the company is on a hiring spree to try and fill the gap left by the dozens of staff who left after the fall of kabulthe sad thing is to lose this much capacity to see a generation of people who weve invested in who could have done so much for the country being forced to leave mohseni told the cpjthis brain drain will take us another two decades to build that sort of capacity sadly