<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm -31.55pt 0cm 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 12pt;"><span lang="CS" style="font-size: 10pt;">The Taliban has banned photographs of 'all living things' as a part of the regime's extreme interpretation of Islamic law. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm -31.55pt 0cm 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 12pt;"><span lang="CS" style="font-size: 10pt;">Afghanistan's morality ministry, which has been tasked with imposing Islamic law on the country since the Taliban came to power in 2021, announced that the photography ban will be gradually enforced.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm -31.55pt 0cm 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 12pt;"><span lang="CS" style="font-size: 10pt;">Meanwhile, Taliban officials have continued to regularly post photos of people on social media.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="mol-para-with-font" style="margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px; min-height: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><font face="Inter, sans-serif"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.16px;"></span></font></p><div style="display: block;"><div style="-webkit-user-select: all; -webkit-user-drag: element; display: inline-block;" class="apple-rich-link" draggable="true" role="link" data-url="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/10/14/taliban-bans-all-images-of-living-things/"><a style="border-radius:10px;font-family:-apple-system, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;display:block;-webkit-user-select:none;width:300px;user-select:none;-webkit-user-modify:read-only;user-modify:read-only;overflow:hidden;text-decoration:none;" class="lp-rich-link" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/10/14/taliban-bans-all-images-of-living-things/" dir="ltr" role="button" draggable="false" width="300"><table style="table-layout:fixed;border-collapse:collapse;width:300px;background-color:#553822;font-family:-apple-system, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" class="lp-rich-link-emailBaseTable" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="300"><tbody><tr><td vertical-align="center" align="center"><img style="width:300px;filter:brightness(0.97);height:157px;" width="300" height="157" draggable="false" class="lp-rich-link-mediaImage" alt="TELEMMGLPICT000397838658_17289132799250_trans_NvBQzQNjv4BqeK8ehqBZJSTiVTgumtathQRSGxdwZZ3YY7Uv4oTmABQ.jpeg" src="cid:5FD133EB-7045-4C08-ACF9-A548FB809157"></td></tr><tr><td vertical-align="center"><table bgcolor="#553822" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="300" style="table-layout:fixed;font-family:-apple-system, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;background-color:rgba(85, 56, 34, 1);-apple-color-filter:initial;" class="lp-rich-link-captionBar"><tbody><tr><td style="padding:8px 0px 8px 0px;" class="lp-rich-link-captionBar-textStackItem"><div style="max-width:100%;margin:0px 16px 0px 16px;overflow:hidden;" class="lp-rich-link-captionBar-textStack"><div style="word-wrap:break-word;font-weight:500;font-size:12px;overflow:hidden;text-overflow:ellipsis;text-align:left;" class="lp-rich-link-captionBar-textStack-topCaption-leading"><a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/10/14/taliban-bans-all-images-of-living-things/" style="text-decoration: none" draggable="false"><font color="#FFFFFF" style="color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.847059);">Taliban bans all images of living things</font></a></div><div style="word-wrap:break-word;font-weight:400;font-size:11px;overflow:hidden;text-overflow:ellipsis;text-align:left;" class="lp-rich-link-captionBar-textStack-bottomCaption-leading"><a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/10/14/taliban-bans-all-images-of-living-things/" style="text-decoration: none" draggable="false"><font color="#FFFFFF" style="color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.54902);">telegraph.co.uk</font></a></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></a></div></div><div><br></div></body></html>