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The Government of Afghanistan has banned the use of the Internet to stop access to anti-Islamic material. The Pakistan-based Afghan Islamic Press (AIP) recently reported Taliban Foreign Minister Maulvi Wakil Ahmad Muttawakil as saying the movement was not against the Internet as such but was opposed to obscenity, vulgarity and anti-Islamic "stuff" on it. "We want to establish a system in Afghanistan through which we can control all those things that are wrong, obscene, immoral and against Islam." he said. The ban also applies to government departments. It is not known how many people or offices use the Internet in a country in which the infrastructure is in ruins because of the more than two decades of war. There are not many computers and most areas do not have electricity. Those who can afford to, including foreign aid agencies, log onto the Internet through the few telephone lines provided by neighboring Pakistan. Users, both official and private, log on to Internet service providers in Pakistan, in the absence of facilities in Afghanistan. The Government is unable to restrict or control the use of the Internet accessed through Pakistani telephone lines. The hardline Taliban movement government follows a strict interpretation of Islam, not shared by other Muslim countries. It is not known how the Taliban planned to ensure that telephone lines were not being used to access the Internet. But most Taliban decisions and edicts on conduct are ruthlessly enforced by their powerful religious police working under the Ministry for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice. In other words resitrict or better still, forget, accessing the internet from Afghanistan.