Male newsreaders have been wearing masks on Afghan TV to protest a new Taliban ruling forcing women to cover their faces on air.Earlier this month, Afghanistan s supreme leader Hibatullah Akhundzada issued a diktat for women to cover up fully .
Afghanistan s Ministry for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice extended the ruling to women appearing on television over the weekend with some refusing to comply.
KABUL, Afghanistan Women presenters on Afghanistan's leading TV channels went on air Saturday without covering their faces, defying a Taliban order that they conceal their appearance to comply with the group's austere brand of Islam.
AFP/ MANILA BULLETIN Since surging back to power last year