Around 150 media outlets across Afghanistan have stopped printing newspapers and magazines due to a financial crisis that has gripped the country since the Taliban came to power, a report said on Thursday.

Tolo TV, citing the journalists' union of Afghanistan, said many newspapers had ceased publishing for good, while others had shifted online.

"Print media has stopped in the country. If the situation goes on like this, we will face a social crisis," Ahmad Shoaib Fana, chief executive of the national journalists' union, was quoted as saying.