Taliban in power: women will not be able to play any sport that “exposes their body” | They will be banned from cricket

“I don’t think women are allowed to play cricket because women don’t need to play cricket “Taliban Culture Commission deputy head Ahmadullah Wasiq said on sports activities Afghan women will be allowed to do.

In this sense, Wasiq stated that women will not be able to practice any sport that “exposes their body”. Speaking to Australian station SBS News, he explained that in the game “they may be faced with situations where their face or body is not covered. Islam does not allow women to be seen as that”.

The official’s statements, in fact, ratify the reduction of the rights that women experience in the new regime. “Islam and the Islamic Emirate do not allow women to play cricket or any other type of sport that exposes them,” Wasiq added.

The move could suspend the next scheduled game in Australia between the two men’s teams as the International Cricket Council requires its 12 members to also have a women’s national team.

Women’s protests

This Wednesday a group of women protested again in the streets of Kabul against the announced government yesterday by the Taliban to claim their right to be part of Afghanistan’s political future.

They demand to guarantee the participation of women in government, after the Taliban yesterday announced the composition of their provisional government and ruled out such a possibility. “Women’s rights cannot be underestimated,” they said.

The women advanced in a Hazara-majority neighborhood in western Kabul, a historically marginalized minority that is also not on the list of ministers unveiled by the insurgents and dominated by the old Taliban guard.

Protesters displayed slogans in favor of “work, education and freedom” under the idea that “a cabinet without women fails”. They also carried banners with portraits of Negar Masumi, an employee of the prison in Gaur province, who was killed seven months pregnant.

The Taliban claim that women’s rights in Afghanistan will be protected by Islamic rules, without further explanation, which Suppose they plan to impose the canons of Sharia (Islamic law).

The Taliban have started to use force against the women who organized the protest in Kabul and are detaining journalists, the editor of the local Ettelaatroz newspaper, Zaki Dariabi, warned. “This is unacceptable cruelty. The Taliban are beating protesters in Kabul,” he wrote on his Twitter account, adding that they are also making arrests. According to Dariabi data, they have already arrested nine people, including five journalists.

Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Muhajid said yesterday amid protests that the new Afghan authorities are banning journalists from covering such actions as illegitimate.