KABUL (Pajhwok): The Ministry of Information and Culture (MoIC) has banned around 400 books across the country, calling them against Afghan and Islamic values.
In lieu of the banned works from libraries and sellers, MoIC promised distributing copies of the Holy Quran, <em>Tafasir</em> and other books.
In line with the ban, the ministry has collected some of the proscribed books from libraries and sellers in different areas.
A statement from MoIC said officials of the ministry and Tourism, Finance and Administrative Affairs Office held a meeting on the issue.
A representative of Baihaqi Publications said the Prime Minister’s Office had already approved the distribution of other books in exchange for the banned ones.
Head of the ministry’s Tourism and Finance Department Maulvi Qudratullah Jamal said to promote the businesses of publishers and book-sellers’ they had proposed a series of a series of measures.
MoIC had also hammered out plans for the improvement of the book sale and publication business across the country, such as holding more book-fares, Jamal added.
The book-sellers must import the books that were in compliance with religious teaching and enhanced youth’s knowledge and Afghanistan’s image, the director stressed.
Bakhtar News Agency (BNA) official Kafeel Maulvi Ziaul Haq Haqmal said after the IEA takeover, MoIC established the book-assessment commission which had taken valuable steps.
The commission has targeted around 400 books which are considered against national and Islamic values. Some of them have already been confiscated. MoIC will distribute copies of the Holy Quran, Tafasir and other books in exchange for the banned ones, Haqmal concluded.
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