Taliban set to ban ladies’s sports activities in Afghanistan, claims report

Australia’s SBS TV has quoted a Taliban spokesperson as saying that ladies’s sports activities — and ladies’s cricket particularly — shall be banned by his group in Afghanistan.
“In cricket, they might face a situation where their face and body will not be covered. Islam does not allow women to be seen like this,” the community quoted Ahmadullah Wasiq, the deputy head of the Taliban’s cultural fee, as saying.
“It is the media era, and there will be photos and videos, and then people watch it. Islam and the Islamic Emirate do not allow women to play cricket or play the kind of sports where they get exposed.”
Wasiq final month informed SBS that the Taliban would permit males’s cricket to proceed and that it has given approval for the lads’s nationwide workforce to journey to Australia for a Test match in November.
But in an announcement launched Thursday, Cricket Australia mentioned it will not proceed with the deliberate Test beginning November 27 if information experiences of Taliban views on the ladies’s sport have been true.
“Driving the growth of women’s cricket globally is incredibly important to Cricket Australia,” the assertion mentioned. “Our imaginative and prescient for cricket is that it’s a sport for all and we assist the sport unequivocally for girls at each stage.

An replace on the proposed Test match in opposition to Afghanistan ⬇️ pic.twitter.com/p2q5LOJMlw
— Cricket Australia (@CricketAus) September 9, 2021
“If recent media reports that women’s cricket will not be supported in Afghanistan are substantiated, Cricket Australia would have no alternative but to not host Afghanistan for the proposed Test match due to be played in Hobart.”
Australia’s Sports Minister Richard Colbeck mentioned earlier that the Taliban’s determination on ladies’s sport was “deeply concerning” and he urged organizations such because the International Cricket Council to take motion.
“Excluding women from sport at any level is unacceptable,” Colbeck mentioned in an announcement. “We urge international sport authorities, including the International Cricket Council, to take a stand against this appalling ruling.”
Players from Afghanistan’s ladies’s soccer workforce are amongst dozens of athletes given visas to dwell in Australia and have been present process quarantine as a result of COVID-19 pandemic.
On Tuesday, the Taliban introduced an all-male interim authorities for Afghanistan stacked with veterans of their hard-line rule from the Nineties and the 20-year battle in opposition to the U.S.-led coalition.
A coverage assertion accompanying the Cabinet announcement sought to allay fears of Afghanistan’s neighbors and the remainder of the world, however was unlikely to calm the fears of girls, who didn’t get a single put up.
The assertion spoke of defending the rights of minorities and the underprivileged, and it promised schooling “to all countrymen within the framework of Sharia.” Women weren’t talked about within the three-page assertion.
Last Saturday, Taliban particular forces in camouflage fired their weapons into the air to finish a protest march in Kabul by ladies demanding equal rights.