Music ban in Afghanistan: Taliban arrest six people

The arrests were made during a family celebration in the city of Mazar-i-Sharif in the north of the country, a Taliban spokesman said. Further details were not initially known. After returning to power in the summer of 2021, the Islamists banned the broadcasting of music.

This was already the case with her reign in the 1990s. At that time, the Taliban had banned music as un-Islamic. Even after the renewed seizure of power, many musicians fled or gave up their profession and hid their instruments. Music is destroying society and misleading the youth, senior Taliban officials claim. No music may be played at weddings either. Despite the announcement that it would govern more moderately, Taliban rule has recently become more authoritarian and dogmatic.