Media: Afghanistan to get chat show for women

The People's Daily Online reports that Afghanistan is to get its own Oprah Winfrey style chat show touching on "taboo women's issues."

Called Bonu, the Persian word for women, the show will be launched by privately run Tolo Television, which has drawn condemnation from mullahs for airing music videos of scantily clad women and for accepting large US grants.

In May the female host of its most popular music program was found dead with gunshot wounds in a mysterious killing. No one has yet been charged.