Afghan capital gets 400 new loudspeakers to encourage prayers

More mosques set up

Hundreds of loudspeakers have been installed in the Afghan capital to encourage faithful to attend prayers, the Taliban's religious enforcers said on Wednesday. The Ministry for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice also said that hundreds of empty shops and other disused buildings had been recently converted into mosques to give everyone the opportunity to pray communally. “During the previous government, some of the loudspeakers were removed and people were not able to listen to the Azan (call to prayer),” the ministry tweeted. It said 400 loudspeakers had been installed in different parts of Kabul “so the people could listen to the Azan at the same time”. — afp