BBC news bulletins have been taken off air in Afghanistan as part of the Taliban’s suspension of foreign TV programmes, the British public broadcaster said on Sunday. U.S. and German public broadcasters Voice of America (VOA) and Deutsche Welle (DW) also said their programmes have been removed after local TV stations are barred from airing them. According to the BBC, CGTN—the international arm of the Chinese communist regime’s state broadcaster CCTV—was also affected by the ban. But satellite TV users, which the BBC said accounts for 20 percent of Afghans, can still access some of the foreign programmes. The BBC said the development would affect “more than six million viewers” of its Persian, Pashto, and Uzbek language service programmes. The British broadcaster said it had previously broadcast via Afghan partner stations in Pashto every day for half an hour; in Uzbek for 15 minutes a day, five days a week; and in Persian for 60 minutes a …