The Taliban banned the broadcasting of foreign serials in the Afghan media

The Ministry of Promoting the Good and Forbidding the Bad of the Taliban has ordered the media in the country not to publish foreign serials.

Based on the order of this ministry, Moby Group, which includes Tolo, Lemar and Tolo News TV channels and two audio media, has stopped broadcasting foreign serials.

TOLOnews wrote on its Twitter account that the Taliban government’s intelligence service had informed the Moby Group representative on Thursday (March 16th) that the ban on foreign serials in Afghanistan’s broadcast media had been definitively banned.

The media wrote that Moby Group’s position and proposal is that all issues, including the ban on foreign serials, be discussed in a joint commission consisting of representatives of the Ministry of Information, Culture and Media, and that the final decision be made in accordance with government custom. And culture to be officially communicated to the media.

Earlier, however, the Taliban Ministry of Promoting Virtue and Prohibiting Virtue had asked the media to refrain from airing serials starring women.

More than 500 video, audio and print media outlets across Afghanistan have been shut down since the Taliban took control of Afghanistan.

Many journalists have also lost their jobs during this period.