Taliban restricts ladies from sport, says ‘excessive for ladies to play cricket

John Smith
2 min readSep 10, 2021

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The Taliban government restricted ladies from contending in sport, guaranteeing it is “improper” and “excessive”, the Guardian announced yesterday.

The case for restricting ladies from contending in sports was that it didn’t squeeze into Islamic law, in spite of it saying no place in the Quran that ladies are prohibited from partaking in games.

In a meeting with an Australian TV channel, the Taliban’s appointee head of culture commission Ahmadullah Wasiq said: “I don’t figure ladies will be permitted to play cricket since it isn’t required that ladies should play cricket.”

“In cricket, they may confront a circumstance where their face and body won’t be covered. Islam doesn’t permit ladies to be seen this way.”

He proceeded: “It is the media time, and there will be photographs and recordings, and afterward individuals watch it. Islam and the Islamic Emirate [Afghanistan] don’t permit ladies to play cricket or play the sort of sports where they get uncovered.”

Accordingly, Australia’s cricket board Cricket Australia (CA) has taken steps to pull out of the coming test match with the Afghanistan male cricket crew in case ladies are restricted from playing.

The CA said in an assertion: “If ongoing media reports that ladies’ cricket won’t be upheld in Afghanistan are validated, Cricket Australia would have no other option except for to not have Afghanistan for the proposed Test match due to be played in Hobart.”

Authorities at the Afghanistan cricket board have said they have not gotten any authority affirmation, however have suspended the board’s program for ladies cricket.

Sportswomen in Afghanistan are said to have self-isolated, because of a paranoid fear of revenge from the Taliban.

This comes after the Taliban framed an all-male government, regardless of promising a “comprehensive” organization to suppress worldwide worries over ladies’ privileges.

The Taliban additionally guaranteed that ladies would keep on being “permitted” to learn at the college level, nonetheless, measures were taken to isolate male and female understudies by forcing window ornaments between the two gatherings.

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