Ministry for the Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice (Afghanistan)
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Afghanistan's Committee for the Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice (Amar Bil Maroof Wa Nahi An al-Munkar) was first instituted by the 1992 Rabbani regime, and adopted by the Taliban when they took power in 1996. In the book Taliban by Ahmed Rashid the ministry is referred to as the Department of the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice. Maulvi Qalamuddin, the head of the ministry during the Taliban era, preferred the English translation Department of Religious Observances.
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See also
- Enjoining what is right and forbidding what is wrong (Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice)
- Talibanization
- Islamic religious police
- Committee for the Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice (Saudi Arabia)
- Committee for the Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice (Gaza Strip)
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