Nooruddin Azizi, the Taliban's Minister of Industry and Commerce, announced the suspension of poultry meat imports to Afghanistan. Azizi said that it was not clear whether the poultry meat that entered Afghanistan from Brazil was halal or haram.

According to the Taliban official, people used to consume Brazilian chickens "with scepticism”.

Afghanistan's national radio and television reported Thursday (October 17) that Nooruddin Azizi announced, "Our ulema and sheikhs have decided to completely stop importing chicken from neighbouring and distant countries to support domestic production."

According to the report, the Taliban's Minister of Industry and Commerce said at the opening ceremony of the Afghanistan Agricultural Products and Products Exhibition that chicken imports were stopped after this decision and now Afghanistan has reached self-sufficiency in poultry farming and related products.

According to him, "hundreds of thousands of people" are currently working in the poultry sector in Afghanistan.