THE BEGINNING OF MASS MEDIA IN UZBEK LANGUAGE IN AFGHANISTAN

After 1978, the language and literature of the Uzbek people, as well as some cultural ‎achievements in the field of Uzbek language and literature, were officially recognized in the ‎regular of Afghanistan.‎

In July of this year, Yoldoz newspaper was published in Uzbek language, and Uzbek language ‎bulletins were dedicated for half an hour through Afghanistan Radio. And then, with the ‎opening of Uzbek language and literature departments in the Academy of Sciences, universities ‎and the Ministry of Education, some action were taken to prepare textbooks for this language. ‎At that time, Afghanistan and the Soviet Union, which had the same political and governmental ‎systems, as well as the Central Asian countries belonging to the former Soviet Union, which had ‎established cultural relations with Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan, and experts in the field of this ‎language were sent to these countries‏.‏

During this period, in addition to the Uzbek-language newspaper "Yoldoz", other newspapers ‎and weeklies were published in the northern provinces, including Faryab and Jozjan. Broadcasts ‎in Uzbek language were also assigned to radio and television stations