Girls from Afghanistan cannot participate in sports including cricket as sporting actions would ‘expose their bodies’, the Taliban acknowledged on Wednesday (September 8). Ahmadullah Wasiq, deputy head of the Taliban’s cultural commission, told media that sports actions weren’t wanted for females.
Earlier this week, the Taliban decreed that handiest a girl trainer would educate female college students nonetheless if that modified into no longer that that you might maybe ponder of then ‘worn males’ of correct character might maybe maybe well maintain in.
“I manufacture no longer ponder females can be allowed to play cricket as a result of it is miles not wanted that females might maybe maybe well peaceable play cricket. In cricket, they might maybe maybe well face a distress the put their face and body is maybe no longer lined. Islam does no longer enable females to be viewed like this. It is a long way the media know-how, and there can be photos and movies, and then folks glimpse it. Islam and the Islamic Emirate enact no longer enable females to play cricket or play the roughly sports the put they ranking uncovered,” acknowledged Ahmadullah Wasiq, the deputy head of the Taliban’s cultural commission, in an interview to SBS News.
In November 2020, twenty-5 female cricketers had been awarded central contracts by the Afghanistan Cricket Board (ACB). It furthermore held a 21-day practicing camp for 40 female cricketers in Kabul. The International Cricket Council (ICC) requires all 12 of its fat members to maintain a nationwide females’s team and handiest fat members of the ICC are permitted to play Take a look at suits.
When asked if no females’s cricket would imply ICC calling off the Hobart Take a look at, Wasiq acknowledged the Taliban would no longer compromise. “Even for this, if we face challenges and problems, now we maintain fought for our faith so that Islam is to be adopted. We just isn’t any longer going to incorrect Islamic values even though it carries opposite reactions. We just isn’t any longer going to head away our Islamic guidelines.”
Cricket Australia threaten to assassinate Hobart Take a look at against Afghanistan
In the period in-between, Cricket Australia maintain acknowledged that they just isn’t any longer going to host Afghanistan for a ancient first-ever Take a look at at Hobart if the media stories of females’s team no longer supported by Taliban are apt. “Driving the expansion of females’s cricket is extraordinarily crucial to Cricket Australia. Our vision for cricket is that it is miles a sport for all and we increase the sport unequivocally for females at each and each level,” Cricket Australia order on Thursday (September 9) read.
An replace on the proposed Take a look at match against Afghanistan pic.twitter.com/p2q5LOJMlw
— Cricket Australia (@CricketAus) September 9, 2021
“If fresh media stories that females’s cricket is maybe no longer supported in Afghanistan are substantiated, Cricket Australia would don’t maintain any substitute nonetheless to no longer host Afghanistan for the proposed Take a look at match as a result of be conducted in Hobart,” the order added.
