Afghanistan’s Taliban govt enacts ‘vice and virtue’ law
Lifestyle A girl sits in front of a bakery in the crowd with Afghan women waiting to receive bread in Kabul, Afghanistan, January 31, 2022. ReutersKABUL: Afghanistan's Taliban government has announced the codification of laws detailing rules of behaviour and lifestyle based on its own interpretation of religious law.The 35-article law published in the official gazette on July 31 establishes prohibitions already generally known in the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan the Taliban government's formal name for the country but its enactment could allow for increased control of the population.The justice ministry announced on its website on Wednesday that the law had been approved by the Taliban's supreme leader, the reclusive Hibatullah Akhundzada, who rules by decree from the southern city of Kandahar.The white-coat wearing personnel of the Ministry for the Propagation of...
