Lemar TV
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Lemar TV is a television station
Television station
A television station is a business, organisation or other such as an amateur television operator that transmits content over terrestrial television. A television transmission can be by analog television signals or, more recently, by digital television. Broadcast television systems standards are...

 based in Kabul
Kabul
Kabul , spelt Caubul in some classic literatures, is the capital and largest city of Afghanistan. It is also the capital of the Kabul Province, located in the eastern section of Afghanistan...

, Afghanistan
Afghanistan
Afghanistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country located in the centre of Asia, forming South Asia, Central Asia and the Middle East. With a population of about 29 million, it has an area of , making it the 42nd most populous and 41st largest nation in the world...

, which was founded in 2006. It is owned by MOBY Group
MOBY Group
MOBY Group is the largest media company in Afghanistan. It was founded by Saad Mohseni, an Afghan-Australian when he returned to his native Afghanistan in 2002...

. The channel broadcasts news, shows, and entertainment programs to certain parts of the country.

Its sister channels are Tolo TV
Tolo TV
Tolo TV , is a television station, being one of the first commercial ones to operate in Afghanistan. Launched in October 2004 by MOBY Group, it laid the foundations for an accessible media outlet offering a big library of shows...

, TOLOnews and FARSI1
Farsi1
FARSI1 is the first international free-to-air Persian-language general entertainment channel. It is considered to be an Afghan-Iranian channel, though it's based in Dubai, United Arab Emirates....

 (which is also owned by News Corporation
News Corporation
News Corporation or News Corp. is an American multinational media conglomerate. It is the world's second-largest media conglomerate as of 2011 in terms of revenue, and the world's third largest in entertainment as of 2009, although the BBC remains the world's largest broadcaster...

). Lemar TV play Hindi serials dubbed in Pashto like Bandhan Saat Janamon Ka
Bandhan Saat Janamon Ka
Bandhan Saat Janamon Ka is an Indian television series which premiered on Colors on July 21, 2008. The story is of an intelligent, mature, simple girl who gets married to be caught up dowry worries.-Cast:*Gungun Uprari ... Janvi*Vishal Gandhi ... Parth...

, Laagi Tujhse Lagan
Laagi Tujhse Lagan
Laagi Tujhse Lagan is an Indian television series that airs on Timing 8:30 Mon-thu Colors TV.It is a love story set in rural gangster background of Nakusha, a beautiful girl who is forced to hide her beauty with black makeup due to circumstances.The show was extremely popular with Indian audience...

.This channel is the #4 most watched channel in Afghanistan, 1tv
1TV
1TV is a Georgian television channel owned and operated by Georgian Public Broadcasting, launched in 1956....

 being the third.

Cricket

Cricket
Cricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...

 is quickly becoming popular in Afghanistan. The 2010 ICC World Twenty20
2010 ICC World Twenty20
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 was shown for the first time in Afghanistan
Afghanistan
Afghanistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country located in the centre of Asia, forming South Asia, Central Asia and the Middle East. With a population of about 29 million, it has an area of , making it the 42nd most populous and 41st largest nation in the world...

 in the local languages of Pashto
Pashto language
Pashto , known as Afghani in Persian and Pathani in Punjabi , is the native language of the indigenous Pashtun people or Afghan people who are found primarily between an area south of the Amu Darya in Afghanistan and...

 and Farsi (Persian).

This would also open its doors for showing other Cricket
Cricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...

 tournaments like Cricket World Cup
Cricket World Cup
The ICC Cricket World Cup is the premier international championship of men's One Day International cricket. The event is organised by the sport's governing body, the International Cricket Council , with preliminary qualification rounds leading up to a finals tournament which is held every four years...

, ICC Champions Trophy
ICC Champions Trophy
The ICC Champions Trophy is a One Day International cricket tournament, second in importance only to the Cricket World Cup. It was inaugurated as the ICC Knock Out tournament in 1998 and has been played every two years since, changing its name to the Champions Trophy in 2002...

, Indian Premier League
Indian Premier League
The Indian Premier League is a professional league for Twenty20 cricket competition in India. It was initiated by the Board of Control for Cricket in India , headquartered in Mumbai, and is supervised by BCCI Vice President Rajeev Shukla, who serves as the league's Chairman and Commissioner...

etc. in the future.
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