Kabul: Afghanistan’s Taliban government on Sunday issued a new ”spiritual guiding principle” that referred to 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 through the Ministry for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, the Taliban additionally referred to as on ladies tv newshounds to put on Islamic hijabs whilst 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 referred to as for banning movies or programmes that had been towards Islamic and Afghan values.
”These aren’t regulations however a spiritual guiding principle’,” ministry spokesman Hakif Mohajir informed AFP.
The new directive turned into broadly circulated past due Sunday on social media networks.
Despite insisting they may rule extra reasonably this time around, the Taliban have already added regulations for what ladies can put on at university, and crushed and careworn numerous Afghan newshounds no matter promising to uphold press freedoms.
The Taliban’s guiding principle for TV networks comes after a long time of explosive increase for unbiased Afghan media beneathneath the Western-subsidized governments that dominated the us of a till August 15, whilst the Islamists regained power.
Dozens of tv channels and radio stations had been installation with Western help and personal funding quickly after the Taliban had been toppled in 2001.
During the beyond 20 years, Afghan tv channels provided a huge variety of programmes — from an ”American Idol” fashion making a song opposition to song videos, together with 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 kinds 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.