Taliban burns devices after claiming music causes ‘corruption’
Photos launched by the hardline Islamist group present 4 males standing subsequent to a bonfire of musical devices collected from throughout the nation.
The pile of burning tools included a guitar, two different stringed devices, cables, a harmonium, a tabla, some audio system and amplifiers.
Sheikh Aziz al-Rahman al-Mujahir, space chief for the western province of Herat within the Ministry of Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice, mentioned music led to “misguidance of the youth and the destruction of society” and that folks might be “corrupted” by it.
The Taliban has carried out a raft of repressive measures since taking energy in August 2021.
Women and women had beforehand been banned from college schooling, a number of professions and public areas together with parks.
Girls can’t go to highschool past sixth grade in Afghanistan, with the schooling ban extending to universities.
Authorities current the schooling restrictions as non permanent suspensions fairly than bans, however universities and faculties reopened in March with out their feminine college students.
In April, Taliban leaders banned ladies from eating places with gardens in Afghanistan’s north-western Herat province following complaints from non secular students about gender mixing.