Kabul: Amid crackdown against sale of alcohol by Taliban authorities in the country, Afghan intelligence agents poured about 3,000 litres of liquor into a canal in Kabul, the country’s spy agency has said, as the new crack down on the sale of alcohol.
Video footage released by the General Directorate of Intelligence showed its agents pouring alcohol stored in barrels into the canal after seizing it during a raid in the capital.
“Muslims have to seriously abstain from making and delivering alcohol,” a religious scholar said in the video, posted by the agency on Twitter.
Selling and consuming alcohol was banned even under the previous Western-backed regime but the Taliban, known for their austere brand of Islam, are stricter in their opposition to it.