On Saturday evening, the Taliban walked into a wedding party in Kandahar and shot dead the 25-year-old groom because music was playing at the event, sources told Zan Times.
It took place at around 10 p.m., according to a resident who was at the party. The newlywed’s name was Mujibullah and he lived in the Police District 6 of Kandahar city.
“The groom’s relatives had brought live music to the event. After the meal, when the guests were celebrating and dancing, the Taliban gunmen came and stopped the music,” says one of the guests, who doesn’t want to be named as he was there at the wedding party when the Taliban shot the groom. He goes on to tell Zan Times that the Taliban wanted to detain the groom’s brother. “When the groom intervened and wanted to stop his brother from being taken away, the Taliban shot him dead,” the guest says.
The Taliban apply their version of sharia with violence and brutality and those who disobey their orders are harassed, detained, tortured, or even killed. Listening to and playing music is forbidden according to the Taliban.
It’s one of a succession of new rules that have been imposed on Afghan life that once seemed ordinary. Recently, places selling flavoured hookah in Kandahar were forced to shut down due to the Taliban declaring it haram.
