KABUL – The Taliban-led administration in Kabul has issued guidelines totelevision networks to stop airing dramas featuring women actors saying thedirectives are not mandatory, but rather a ‘religious guideline’.
Ministry for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice also askedwomen television journalists to wear hijabs during the news bulletin,spokesman Hakif Mohajir told a newswire service.
Taliban authorities issued the first of its kind of directives to Afghan’smedia networks as earlier Taliban pledged to be moderate in theirexercising of power after ousting western-backed setup.
According to the recent directives, films or soap operas that were againstIslamic or cultural values should be banned.
It further added that the depiction of male bodies, unclothed torsos, wasalso deemed inappropriate under the new guidelines.
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Earlier, in the previous regime, TV and movies were banned as well as mostother forms of media however Taliban have already introduced rules inrecent times for women about dress code at university and offices.
People, who were caught watching TV faced punishment, as the Talibansmashed their equipment. Ownership of a video player was also a violationback in the day.
