Sobbing and barely abe to speake, a teenage girl from Afghanistan's northern Takhar province describles the horror of being gang-rapped at gunpoint.

'They raped me for three days and nights. I felt like I was going crazy', she said. 'They forced me to drink alcohol. I couldn't get up. They had guns, knives. They were so cruel and brutal. I screamed and cried, but they didn't care'.

The Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit (AREU) is an independent research organization headquartered in Kabul. AREU's mission is to conduct high-quality research that informs and influences policy and practice. Read Newsletter of Number 17, April 2008.

During the Taliban regime only one government control radio station operated for conveying religious message. Television and Internet were banned. Today Afghanistan’s’ media are lauded as a development success story in light of the obstacles and challenges the country faced after the Taliban regime was defected in 2001. Afghanistan looked as if it managed to establish a relatively free flow of information and a number of solid media outlets capable of informing its people.

The BBC Trust released its business performance Annual Report which included Afghanistan audience measurement research commissioned from D3. Conducted for the BBC World Service, the research reports the current state of Afghanistan’s broadcast media market and the position of the BBC World Service’s programming in it. General demographics for the market are also detailed. The full Annual Report is available here and the Afghanistan report is below. Source: D3 Systems