Organ transplant ban by Taliban in Afghanistan (BBC)

 Afshin Nikzad forwards me this report from  the BBC Persian service (in Farsi, but automatically translated by Chrome):

Kidney transplant halted in Afghanistan  by Sajjad Mohammadi

"A number of private hospitals in Kabul and Herat told the BBC that the Taliban government has banned kidney transplants in Afghan hospitals for a month now.

"The Taliban government's Ministry of Encouraging Good and Forbidding Evil announced about a month ago that, according to the seventh paragraph of Article 18 of the ministry's law, the sale and use of human body parts such as kidneys, liver, eyes, and hair is prohibited.

"The ministry said: "The basis and purpose of this decision is to preserve human dignity and respect, and the human body has special sanctity, and its organs should not under any circumstances be used as a means of commercialization or profiteering."