{"id":10654,"date":"2026-04-12T14:25:39","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T14:25:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/04\/12\/taliban-foreign-ministry-meeting-social-practices-directive\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T14:25:39","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T14:25:39","slug":"taliban-foreign-ministry-meeting-social-practices-directive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/04\/12\/taliban-foreign-ministry-meeting-social-practices-directive\/","title":{"rendered":"Taliban Foreign Ministry Holds Meeting to Implement Leader\u2019s New Directive on Social Practices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Taliban&#8217;s Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced that it has held a meeting to implement the seventeenth directive issued by the group\u2019s leader aimed at curbing what they term &#8216;undesirable social practices.&#8217; <\/p>\n<p>In a statement released by the ministry, Amir Khan Muttaqi, the acting head of the ministry, emphasized during the meeting that these &#8216;un-Islamic and undesirable&#8217; practices not only contradict Islamic principles but also, according to him, place economic pressure on the people and must be prevented.<\/p>\n<p>According to the statement, Muttaqi added that the Taliban leadership is particularly focused on societal reform and strengthening Islamic values, and this directive was issued within that framework.<\/p>\n<p>However, the Taliban administration has not provided specific details on how this directive will be implemented or on the precise definition and scope of &#8216;undesirable practices.&#8217; This ambiguity has previously raised concerns about the potential expansion of social restrictions and increased intrusion into the private lives of citizens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taliban&#8217;s Foreign Ministry holds meeting to enforce new directive banning &#8216;undesirable social practices&#8217; amid concerns over increased social restrictions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10653,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10654\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}