Taliban News Agency Censors Image of Women EU Official

Bakhtar News Agency, under the control of the Taliban, censored the picture of Veronika Bošković, the European Union's chargé d'affaires in Afghanistan.

Bošković met Khalil-ur-Rahman Haqqani, the Taliban's Minister of Refugees and Repatriation, in Kabul on Wednesday.

The Taliban's Ministry of Refugees and Repatriation released uncensored footage of the meeting, but the Persian section of the Bakhtar news agency hid the images of the EU chargé d'affaires.

The Pashto section of BNA also published the news of this meeting, but with the difference that instead of a joint photo of Haqqani and Bošković, it only published a photo of the Taliban's Minister of Refugees.

The European Union recently nominated Bosković as its representative in Afghanistan.
On Wednesday, she spoke with the Taliban's Minister of Refugees about the deportation of Afghan refugees from Iran and Pakistan.

According to the Taliban's Law on the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, women's faces and voices are prohibited in public places, and women must leave their homes with a mahram.