Taliban order TikTok, PUBG ban in entertainment crackdown

By Agence France-Presse

Apr 21, 2022 7:45 pm

KABUL: The Taliban ordered a ban against video-sharing app TikTok and the survival-shooter PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds (PUBG) game on Thursday, insisting they were leading Afghanistan's youth astray.

The phone apps are popular among Afghans, who have been left with few outlets for entertainment since the hardline Islamists returned to power last year and banned music, movies and television soaps.

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