Taliban’s New Decrees Aim at Further Controlling Media Space  

In an effort to control the public space and change it in their own image, the Taliban has issued a series of new rulings. The regime’s Ministry of Information and Culture has ordered the media in Afghanistan to refrain from using what it calls “foreign terms.”

In a statement on Thursday, January 18, The Afghanistan Journalist Center (AFJC) stated that it had obtained a copy of the Taliban’s letter to the media.  In the letter, Khairullah Khairkhah, the Taliban’s minister of information and culture, said that he “hopes that all the country’s media in their programs, interviews, news, comments, and writings Avoid the terms, words, and expressions of other languages and consider the principles, rules, and grammar of their national and official languages so that the languages of the country remain immune from the interference, influence, and influence of foreign languages.”