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Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers have ordered all female TV presenters to cover their faces on air.

The country’s biggest media outlet, Tolo news channel, has said the order came in a statement from the Taliban’s Virtue and Vice Ministry - which is tasked with enforcing the group’s rulings.The statement was sent to the Moby Group, which owns Tolo and several other TV and radio networks, but is said to apply to all other Afghan media as well.

"Yesterday we met with media officials... they accepted our advice very happily," Akif Mahajar, spokesman for the Taliban's Ministry of Vice and Virtue, told Reuters.Several female news anchors and presenters have shared photos on social media showing themselves with their faces covered with masks as they present programmes.

The Taliban have ordered Afghan women TV presenters to cover their faces. Yalda Ali is the host of Tolo TV and has published this video. let’s be her voice!!

 

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