Afghanistan's Taliban authorities on Sunday issued a new ''religious guideline'' that called on the country's television channels to stop showing dramas and soap operas featuring women actors. In the first such directive to Afghan media issued by the Ministry for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, the Taliban…
KABUL: Afghanistan's Taliban authorities on Sunday issued a new "religious guideline" that called on the country's television channels to stop showing dramas and soap operas featuring women actors.
In the first such directive to Afghan media issued by the Ministry for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice the Taliban also called on women television journalists to wear Islamic hijabs while presenting their reports
Taliban has said that these directives are not obligatory, rather a religious guideline . It has also asked women journalists on television to wear hijabs.