Authorities from Afghanistan’s vice ministry created a bonfire of confiscated musicial devices and gear in Herat province on the weekend, deeming music immoral.

“Promoting music causes moral corruption and playing it will cause the youth to go astray,” mentioned Aziz al-Rahman al-Muhajir, head of the Herat division of the Ministry for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice.

Since seizing energy in August 2021, Taliban authorities have steadily imposed legal guidelines and rules that mirror their austure imaginative and prescient of Islam — together with banning enjoying music in public.

Saturday’s bonfire noticed lots of of {dollars} price of musical gear go up in smoke — a lot of it collected from marriage ceremony halls within the metropolis.

It included a guitar, two different stringed devices, a harmonium and a tabla — a kind of drum — in addition to amplifiers and audio system.

Women have borne the brunt of the brand new authorities rules, and are usually not allowed in public except carrying a hijab.

Teenage women and girls have been barred from colleges and universities, and they’re additionally prohibited from coming into parks, playgrounds and gymnasiums.

Last week, hundreds of magnificence salons have been shuttered throughout the nation after authorities deemed sure makeovers to be too expensive, or un-Islamic.