Amu TV, 25 August 2025
Afghan exile media platform Amu TV surveyed the countrywide implementation (or not) of the Taleban leader’s August 2024 decree to stop publishing images of living beings:
According to Amu’s findings, in 16 provinces — Nuristan, Sar-e-Pul, Bamyan, Laghman, Zabul, Uruzgan, Helmand, Jawzjan, Faryab, Badghis, Farah, Daikundi, Kapisa, Panjshir, Kandahar and Maidan Wardak — broadcasting images of living beings is completely banned.
In seven provinces — Nimroz, Kunar, Logar, Nangarhar, Kunduz, Badakhshan and Samangan — images are broadcast inconsistently, depending on whether the content benefits the Taliban.
In 11 provinces — Kabul, Balkh, Herat, Ghazni, Paktia, Paktika, Khost, Ghor, Baghlan, Takhar and Parwan — images of people are still shown.
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In provinces where the ban is in place, news programs often replace video clips of people with footage of government buildings, landscapes or generic visuals while playing the audio of officials or interviewees in the background.
It concludes:
The survey shows that Taliban authorities are not unified on the issue. Differences exist both locally and at the leadership level, particularly between the Taliban Ministry for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice and the their Ministry of Information and Culture.
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This article was last updated on 29 Aug 2025
