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![[Ministry for the Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice]](../images/a/af_mpvpv.gif) image by Zoltan Horvath, 24 February 2025
 
image by Zoltan Horvath, 24 February 2025See also:
The Ministry for the Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice 
(Pashto: د امربالمعروف، نهی عن المنکر او شکایتونو اورېدلو وزارت; Dari: وزارت امر 
بالمعروف، نهی عن المنکر وسمع شکایات) is the state agency in charge of 
implementing Islamic law in the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan as defined by the 
Taliban. It was first instituted in 1992 by the Rabbani government of the 
Islamic State of Afghanistan and adopted in 1996 by the Taliban government of 
the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan of 1996–2001. The ministry was restored in 
the reinstated Islamic Emirate in September 2021 after the August fall of Kabul.
Source:
https://en.wikipedia.org
Website of Ministry: https://mopvpe.gov.af/
Its flag is light blue with its emblem placed in the center of the flag.
Images of flag:
https://x.com/ArianaNews_/status/1661970665472409601/photo/1 
https://www.meforum.org/prominent-uk-islamists-pay-homage-to-taliban-in 
Zoltan Horvath, 24 February 2025
The flag image at
https://en.wikipedia.org shows a much larger emblem on the plain light blue 
background, and the emblem itself is shown there with light grey fill in its 
central disc, while Zoltán’s image matches the reported photos with smaller 
emblem and its central disc in white.
Both photos are in what seems to be 
the same location in the time frame
https://k2-prod-mef.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com
https://pbs.twimg.com/media (likely at a Ministry facility), and show the 
indoors flag hoisted upside down.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 25 
February 2025