Afghan Taliban order women TV anchors to cover their faces
India Today
Taliban rulers in Afghanistan ordered all female anchors on TV to cover their faces on air.
Afghanistan's Taliban rulers ordered all female presenters on TV channels to cover their faces on air, the country's biggest media outlet said Thursday.
The order came in a statement from the Taliban's Virtue and Vice Ministry, tasked with enforcing the group's rulings, as well as from the Information and Culture Ministry, the TOLOnews channel said in a tweet.
The statement called the order “final and non-negotiable,” the channel said.
The statement was sent to the Moby Group, which owns TOLOnews and several other TV and radio networks, and the tweet said it was being applied to other Afghan media as well.
An Afghan local media official confirmed his station had received the order and was told it was not up for discussion.
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He said the station had no other option. He spoke on condition he and his station not be identified for fear of problems with the authorities.
