Images shared showed a guitar, two other stringed instruments, a harmonium, and a tabla, as well as amplifiers and speakers being burnt.
“Promoting music causes moral corruption and playing it will cause the youth to go astray,” Aziz al-Rahman al-Muhajir, the head of the Herat Ministry for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, said.
Thousands of beauty salons were shut across the country after Taliban authorities deemed certain makeovers to be too costly, or un-Islamic, last week.
Teenage girls and women have been barred from schools and universities, and they are also prohibited from entering parks, playgrounds and gyms.
