On the streets with the Taliban’s ‘Virtue and Vice’ police

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The Story

2026-08-14

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It’s been five years since the Taliban took over Afghanistan’s capital. Since then, the country has been plunged into economic crisis and women have all but disappeared from society. The Times’ special correspondent Anthony Loyd has been reporting from Afghanistan for 30 years. He’s been back on the streets of Kabul and on patrol with the Taliban’s morality police finding out what life is like for ordinary Afghans. This podcast was brought to you thanks to the support of readers of The Times and The Sunday Times. Subscribe today: http://thetimes.com/thestory Guest: Anthony Loyd, special correspondent, The Times.  Host: Manveen Rana. Producers: Emily Webb, Jennifer Kennedy. We want to hear from you - email: thestory@thetimes.com Read more: On patrol with the Taliban’s ‘Virtue and Vice’ police Clips: BBC, Al Jazeera, DW News, ABC News, Fox 59, CBS, ARB 24. Photo: Getty Images. This podcast was brought to you thanks to subscribers of The Times and The Sunday Times. To enjoy unlimited digital access to all our journalism subscribe here. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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  • From The Times and The Sunday Times, this is The Story.

  • I'm Manveen Rana.

  • Tomorrow it'll be five years since Kabul fell and the Taliban declared victory,

  • returning a repressive regime to power in Afghanistan after two long decades of war.

  • Almost immediately, as Western troops and many aid agencies left, the country was plunged into crisis.

  • Afghanistan is facing one of the most severe hunger crises in the world.

  • A collapsing economy, natural disasters, and the mass return of refugees

  • have left millions of people unable to feed their families.

  • UN estimates 3.7 million children in Afghanistan under the age of five are facing dangerous levels of hunger this year.

  • The Times special correspondent Anthony Lloyd has been reporting from Afghanistan for three decades

  • and he returned a few weeks ago to see how much had changed.

  • He managed to spend some time on the streets of Kabul with the Taliban's morality police, following them on patrol.

  • The guys I'm with are four of them and they're in white coats

  • and they're a little bit like a vet's white coat or a lab technician's white coat.

  • They've got the logo of the morality police on their chest.

  • The pace of the patrol is very slow.

  • They go into shops, they advise men to adhere to prayer times, to close the shop in prayer times.

  • Oh, by Supreme Pizza now?

  • No, I was just wondering if there's any moral transgression going on.

  • So the Law of Virtue and Vice is designed to repress adultery, lesbianism, music,