DOHA, Oct 16: State television here and in Jordan announced that, for technical reasons, they will not broadcast a story of love set in Taliban-ruled Afghanistan, a day after militants issued threats against the Jordanian-produced series.

The head of Qatar's state television, Mohammed Abderrahman al Kawari, was quoted on Saturday by the local press as saying "The Road to Kabul" soap, which had been due to kick off with the first day of Ramazan on Friday, "was not technically ready".

The series, featuring Jordanian and Syrian actors, recounts the relationship between a young Afghan woman and an Arab man who meet in London and then go to live in the Afghan capital, Kabul.

Their story is told against the backdrop of recent Afghan history, from the Soviet occupation of the 1980s through the emergence of the Taliban to the US-led invasion of the country in Oct 2001.-AFP