Taliban to change Afghan passports, national identity cards

The Taliban have replaced women’s ministry with the “Ministries of Prayer and Guidance and the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice”, not allowed girls to return to schools and restoring punishments like amputations and executions.

The Taliban have announced they will change Afghan passports and national identity cards issued by the previous government and said the documents will be valid for the time being.

Zabiullah Mujahid, the Taliban deputy minister of information and culture and the spokesperson, said it is possible that Afghan passports and NIDs to have the name “Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan” in them.

Mujahid also said that the documents issued by the previous government are still valid as legal documents of the country.