ISLAMABAD –
An Afghan province has banned all media from exhibiting photos of residing issues to make sure compliance with the Taliban’s morality legal guidelines.
Thursday’s resolution was introduced by Info Ministry officers in Helmand, the most recent province to crack down on broadcasting and images of people and animals.
In August, the nation’s Vice and Advantage Ministry printed legal guidelines regulating features of on a regular basis life like public transportation, shaving, the media and celebrations reflecting authorities’ interpretation of Islamic legislation, or Sharia. Article 17 bans the publication of photos of residing beings.
Helmand officers stated the filming and images of residing issues would cease instantly. They gave no additional details about enforcement or exceptions.
Final week, Taliban run-media stopped exhibiting photos of residing issues within the provinces of Takhar, Maidan Wardak and Kandahar in observance of the legal guidelines.
Some non-public channels are reported to have additionally stopped working footage and movies of residing issues to make sure compliance.
No different Muslim-majority nation imposes comparable restrictions, together with Iran and Saudi Arabia. Throughout their earlier rule within the late Nineteen Nineties, the Taliban banned most tv, radio and newspapers altogether.
Additionally Thursday, the Info Ministry introduced it had banned 400 books that clashed with Islamic and Afghan values.
The outlawed books have been collected from shops and publishing homes and changed by non secular texts, together with the Qur’an.
A spokesman for the ministry, Khubaib Ghofran, wrote on X: “Any e-book written in accordance with the nefarious plans of enemies with the intention to destroy the thought, religion, unity and tradition of this nation shall be collected by the Ministry of Info and Tradition.”
