No pictures: Afghanistan journalists fear clampdown on visual reporting

Taliban official tells media personnel to focus on growing beards

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Journalists attend a news conference in Kabul in January 2023. © Reuters

KHUDAI NOOR NASAR, Contributing writer

KABUL -- Afghanistan's already limited space for journalism is narrowing further, with Taliban officials increasingly ordering reporters not to take photographs.

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