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Islamabad: India’s neighboring country Afghanistan is in the news for its strange decision. Afghanistan has banned taking pictures of living creatures. The matter is related to Afghanistan’s Helmand province. Where Helmand province has banned showing pictures of living creatures in the media to ensure compliance with the Taliban’s morality laws. The decision was announced by officials of the Ministry of Information in Helmand. This is the latest province to impose controls on videography and photography of humans and animals.
In August, the country’s Ministry of Morality published laws regulating aspects of everyday life such as public transport, shaving, media, and gatherings, reflecting the authorities’ interpretation of Islamic law, or Sharia. Article 17 bans the publication of images of living creatures. Helmand officials said videography and photography of living creatures would be stopped immediately. They gave no further details about the law’s implementation or exemptions. Last week, Taliban-run media in Takhar, Maidan Wardak, and Kandahar provinces stopped showing images of living creatures in compliance with the law.
Private channels started following the rules.
Some private channels have also stopped showing photos and videos of living creatures to ensure compliance with the law. No Muslim-majority country, including Iran and Saudi Arabia, imposes such restrictions. During its previous rule in the late 1990s, the Taliban completely banned most television, radio, and newspapers. On Thursday, the Information Ministry announced that it had banned 400 books that it said were contrary to Islamic and Afghan values. The banned books have been collected from shops and publishing houses and replaced with religious texts, including the Quran.
