{"id":18486,"date":"2026-07-27T07:00:20","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T07:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/07\/27\/taliban-leader-enforces-promotion-virtue-prevention-vice-law\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T07:00:20","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T07:00:20","slug":"taliban-leader-enforces-promotion-virtue-prevention-vice-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/07\/27\/taliban-leader-enforces-promotion-virtue-prevention-vice-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Taliban Leader Stresses Enforcement of Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sheikh Hibatullah Akhundzada, the leader of the Taliban administration, during a meeting with local officials, religious scholars, and tribal elders from southern provinces in Kandahar, emphasized the enforcement of the Ministry of Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice&#8217;s law.<\/p>\n<p>This meeting was organized by the Ministry of Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice of the Taliban administration to discuss the methods of implementing the ministry&#8217;s law. The Taliban leader described one of the fundamental goals of the &#8220;twenty-year jihad&#8221; as the promotion of virtue and prevention of what he termed &#8220;vice.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He called on religious scholars to play a leading role in enforcing religious rulings and societal reform, urging them to serve as role models in practice.<\/p>\n<p>In recent months, the Ministry of Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice of the Taliban administration has been central to a series of decisions and actions related to monitoring social behaviors, with the ministry&#8217;s law providing the operational framework for these measures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taliban leader Sheikh Hibatullah Akhundzada urges strict enforcement of the law promoting virtue and preventing vice in southern Afghanistan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18484,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18486","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=18486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18486\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}