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TV motherboards for sale at the junk bazaar. Mazar-e-Sharif, Afghanistan. 15 October 2002...When they came to power in September 1996 the Taliban banned all forms of entertainment and subsequently bulldozed cinemas and destroyed any TV sets they could find. ..During my journeys in Taliban Afghanistan I was often told that Mullah Omar had warned Afghans that they would disappear into an abyss like the Titanic if they did not comply with the entertainment ban.. (KEYSTONE/VII Photo/Daniel Schwartz)