March 8, 1997
(Reuter) --
Afghanistan's fundamentalist Islamic Taliban have told news agencies and
television crews that they cannot photograph or film "living bodies." They say
the depiction of living forms is forbidden under Islamic law, although
photographic shops are stillopen in Kabul for passport photographs.
Since the Taliban first appeared in Afghanistan more than two years ago, they
have taken a strong line against television and photography, symbolically
hanging television sets in their southern Afghan stronghold of Kandahar, and
in one case smashing a television crew's equipment.
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