Afghan Star season two started in August 2006 with auditions in Kabul, Mazar, Herat, Kandahar, Jalalabad and Peshawar.
Taher Showqi was a participant of the third season of Afghan Star on Tolo TV and placed fifth.
Star Trek | Star Wars | Star Trek: Deep Space Nine | Star Trek: Voyager | Star Trek: The Original Series | Star Trek: The Next Generation | Toronto Star | Bronze Star Medal | Silver Star | The Star-Spangled Banner | Red Star Belgrade | Afghan | star | White Star Line | Afghan National Army | Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith | Star Trek: Enterprise | Star of David | Order of the Star of India | Major League Baseball All-Star Game | Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace | Star Cinema | Order of the Polar Star | Fort Worth Star-Telegram | Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones | Star Search | Big Star | The Afghan Whigs | Lone Star | Big Star (band) |
Other candidates for Kabul include: comedian Zamir Kabuli, who is famous for ridiculing politicians; Farida Tarana, a 29-year-old former female contestant on Afghan Star, the local equivalent of American Idol.
In 2009, they held a film festival which showed many films from Afghanistan including, The Afghan Chronicles, 16 Days in Afghanistan, Afghan Star, Beyond Belief, and Beauty Academy of Kabul