Rana FM was a Pashto language broadcast radio station operating from studios in an undisclosed location in Kingston, Ontario[3] feeding transmitters in Kandahar and Kabul, Afghanistan.
Launched on January 6, 2007 during the 2001 Afghan war, the military-run station[4] hired Afghan-Canadians as its on-air voice, presenting Bollywood and modern Afghan music, news, sports and public affairs programming with a distinct pro-NATO, anti-Taliban slant.
[3] The station was available as over the air FM radio in Afghanistan, via satellite (Eutelsat 70B, 70.5°E, 11210 MHz, horizontal, DVB-S, 6509 kilobits/second)[7] and streamed on-line.
As Canada's role in the Afghanistan War had largely ended by 2011,[9] the station is no longer on the air.
Filmmaker Ariel Nasr's full-length documentary describing Rana FM, "Good Morning Kandahar",[10] aired November 11, 2008 on CBC Newsworld[11][12] and won the National Film Board of Canada Reel Diversity Competition.