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‘Wedding or a funeral?’ Taliban bans music at Kabul wedding halls

A musician covers his face to protect his identity as he shows his musical instruments that were broken by the Taliban [File: Hussein Malla/AP Photo]

The Taliban’s religious police will be scouring wedding halls in Kabul, Afghanistan to enforce a ban on playing music that they say contradicts Islamic rulings on such celebrations, a news report says.

In an online statement, the Ministry for the Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice said on Sunday that hall owners were instructed that no more music is allowed at wedding parties, the German press agency dpa reported.

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