KABUL: The Taliban government in Afghanistan has introduced a law to define ethical framework and set rules and regulations for the media.
According to the World News Agency, Afghanistan’s Taliban government’s Ministry of Ethics has pledged to implement a law that would ban the news media from publishing images of all living things.
A spokesman for the Taliban’s Ministry of Ethics told reporters that the new media laws would be implemented gradually and requested not to insult Islam.
Spokesman Saiful Islam Khyber told AFP that there will be no coercion to enforce the law, but they will work to convince people that images of animals are against Islamic law.
Saiful Islam Khyber said that the implementation of this law has started in Kandahar, Helmand and Takhar and it will be gradually implemented in the rest of the provinces.
However, local journalists in Kandahar told AFP that no order has yet been received from the Ministry of Ethics and the Ethics Police has not stopped us from taking pictures and videos.
However, journalists have been ordered to take pictures from a distance and to take pictures and videos of events as little as possible and to gradually stop this habit.
The law was introduced after the Taliban government recently announced formal legislation for its strict interpretation of Islamic law.
It should be remembered that during the first period of Taliban rule from 1996 to 2001, television and images of living beings were banned across the country.
Due to the Taliban government in Afghanistan, the number of media workers decreased from 8,400 to 5,000, of which only 560 women are left.
