{"id":39508,"date":"2026-04-24T08:38:50","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T04:08:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deeyartelevision.com\/en\/?p=39508"},"modified":"2026-04-24T08:38:52","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T04:08:52","slug":"taliban-arrest-21-over-alleged-music-and-alcohol-use","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeyartelevision.com\/en\/39508\/","title":{"rendered":"Taliban Arrest 21 Over Alleged Music and Alcohol Use"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The Taliban said it has arrested 21 people in Baghlan province on charges of playing musical instruments and consuming alcoholic beverages.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Taliban police command in Baghlan said in a statement that the individuals were arrested on Wednesday from a residential house in the First Security District of Pul-e Khumri city.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to the statement, several musical instruments were seized from the detainees, including a dambura, a ghichak, a tabla, and a harmonium, as well as 11 bottles of alcohol and a pressure cooker.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Taliban officials said the case will be handed over to their judicial authorities after the initial investigation is completed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They stressed that \u201cany act contrary to Islamic principles\u201d is prohibited under Taliban rule and that violators will be dealt with \u201clegally.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Taliban has previously collected and burned musical instruments in several provinces of the country on multiple occasions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Experts say the Taliban\u2019s opposition to music is rooted in its ideological beliefs, a stance that was also observed during its first period in power.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Taliban said it has arrested 21 people in Baghlan province on charges of playing musical instruments and consuming alcoholic beverages. The Taliban police command in Baghlan said in a statement that the individuals were arrested on Wednesday from a residential house in the First Security District of Pul-e Khumri city. According to the statement, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":39510,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[8482,8484,8489,8485,8488,8487,8483,8022,8486,1238,2335,5719,5706],"class_list":["post-39508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-afghanistan","tag-alcohol","tag-baghlan-2","tag-ideological","tag-instruments","tag-islamic-principles","tag-judicial-authorities","tag-music","tag-provinces","tag-taliban-police-command","tag-afghanistan","tag-deeyar","tag-deeyar-television","tag-deeyar-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeyartelevision.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeyartelevision.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeyartelevision.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeyartelevision.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeyartelevision.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39508"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeyartelevision.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39511,"href":"https:\/\/deeyartelevision.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39508\/revisions\/39511"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeyartelevision.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeyartelevision.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeyartelevision.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeyartelevision.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}