Afghanistan’s Taliban government on Sunday issued a new ”non secular tenet” that known as at the us of a’s tv channels to forestall displaying dramas and cleaning soap operas offering ladies actors.
In the primary such directive to Afghan media issued with the aid of using the Ministry for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, the Taliban additionally known as on ladies tv reporters to put on Islamic hijabs at the same time as offering their reports.
And the ministry requested the channels now no longer to air movies or programmes wherein the Prophet Mohammed or different respected figures are shown.
It known as for banning movies or programmes that have been towards Islamic and Afghan values.
”These aren’t regulations however a non secular tenet’,” ministry spokesman Hakif Mohajir informed AFP.
The new directive turned into extensively circulated past due Sunday on social media networks.
Despite insisting they’ll rule extra fairly this time around, the Taliban have already delivered regulations for what ladies can put on at university, and overwhelmed and careworn numerous Afghan reporters regardless of promising to uphold press freedoms.
The Taliban’s tenet for TV networks comes after many years of explosive boom for unbiased Afghan media beneathneath the Western-sponsored governments that dominated the us of a till August 15, whilst the Islamists regained power.
Dozens of tv channels and radio stations have been installation with Western help and personal funding quickly after the Taliban have been toppled in 2001.
During the beyond 20 years, Afghan tv channels provided a extensive variety of programmes — from an ”American Idol” fashion making a song opposition to track videos, along side numerous Turkish and Indian cleaning soap operas.
When the Islamists formerly dominated from 1996 to 2001, there has been no Afghan media to talk of — they banned tv, films and maximum different varieties of entertainment, deeming it immoral.
People stuck looking tv confronted punishment, such as having their set smashed. Ownership of a video participant may want to cause a public lashing.
There turned into handiest one radio station, Voice of Sharia, that broadcast propaganda and Islamic programming.