Kabul [Afghanistan], July 31: A number of musical instruments were burned on Sunday in Afghanistan's western province of Herat by the Taliban's morality police, the state-run Bakhtar News Agency reported.
The provincial head of the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice Department Sheikh Aziz al-Rahman al-Muhajir said that the authorities had seized and burned the musical instruments because listening to music was forbidden.
The official has called the promotion of music a form of "corruption," adding that music causes "the misguidance of the youth and the destruction of society."
Source: Qatar Tribune
