As part of a crackdown on what they called anti-Islamic practices, Taliban morality police in Afghanistan said on Tuesday that they had “seized and destroyed” more than 21,000 musical instruments in the previous year.
At a press conference in Kabul one day after Taliban authorities had openly carried out a mass burning of hundreds of musical instruments in the neighboring northern Parwan province, representatives of the so-called Ministry for the Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice talked about their “annual performance”.
Residents were also advised not to play musical instruments during weddings and other festivities by the provincial moral police department.
Speaking on Tuesday in the Afghan capital, ministry representatives declared that as part of the Taliban administration’s “societal reforms,” thousands of “immoral films” had been destroyed and many more had been prevented “from use on personal computers” across the country. On the nature of the films, they did not go into detail.
The ministry declared that it had “successfully implemented 90% of reforms across audio, visual, and print media” in Afghanistan, without going into details.
