KABUL, Afghanistan — The Taliban held an International Water Conference in Kabul on Monday, but the event was not broadcast on state-run television, and no video footage was released
The conference, hosted at Kabul Polytechnic University, was organized by the Taliban-led Ministry of Higher Education and presided over by the acting minister, Neda Mohammad Nadim. Nadim, who has previously opposed the public display of images of living beings, said during the event that the Taliban government had launched “various water projects across the country.”
While some Taliban-controlled institutions, including the presidential palace, avoid publishing images of living beings, others—such as the Ministries of Interior, Defense, and Foreign Affairs—continue to release photographs of official meetings. The discrepancy has reportedly led to tensions among senior Taliban officials.
Despite the restrictions, the office of Abdul Ghani Baradar, the Taliban’s deputy prime minister for economic affairs, released several photographs from the event.
In August, Taliban leader Hibatullah Akhundzada issued a decree banning the publication of images of living beings, citing their interpretation of the Islamic principle of promoting virtue and preventing vice.
