The newly installed Taliban regime will forbid Afghan women from playing cricket and other sports where their bodies might be seen, a senior official tells Australian …
The newly installed Taliban regime will forbid Afghan women from playing cricket and other sports where their bodies might be seen, a senior official tells Australian public broadcaster SBS. “I don’t think women will be allowed to play cricket because it is not necessary that women should play cricket,” said Ahmadullah Wasiq, deputy head of the Taliban’s cultural commission, according to a translation by SBS. Afghanistan has a national women’s cricket team — but their status has been thrown into question along with every other woman in the country, after the Taliban ousted the U.
