Taliban announces yet another restriction this week: flavoured hookah. On Tuesday, the Taliban directorate of vice and virtue in Kandahar city sent a notice to coffee shops and sports clubs in Kandahar city banning the flavoured hookahs. At the same time, the Taliban reiterated their previous ban on music.
Zan Times has a copy of the notice, which reads, in part: “Dear brothers, listening to music is a great sin and forbidden, and smoking flavoured hookah is harmful to the body. The directorate of vice and virtue seriously warns you to avoid listening to music and smoking hookah.”
The owner of a coffee shop in Kandahar, who asked for anonymity, tells Zan Times that “The Taliban had announced this issue verbally a month ago, but they sent this announcement on Tuesday and said that cafés serving flavoured hookahs must be shut down.”
The source says that he had no choice but to close his business because of the new ban: “I had 12 employees, fired them all, and closed the café.”
Two other sources tell Zan Times that cafés were shutting down in the city on Wednesday and Thursday.
