Taliban torched or damaged nearly two dozen music and video shops selling “un-Islamic” materials in a small town in eastern Afghanistan, an official said on Friday. The fundamentalist rebels also left leaflets warning that merchants in Alisher in Khost province will be “badly punished” if they do not stop selling CDs and DVDs, police official Wazir Badshah said. “The enemies came and burned down some nine music shops and destroyed the doors of 12 others. They’ve also dropped leaflets in the area threatening to punish people selling musical materials,” Badshah said. He said the act was aimed at creating fear amongst residents and to show the weakness of the government of US-backed President Hamid Karzai.