{"id":177100,"date":"2021-09-08T15:41:24","date_gmt":"2021-09-08T15:41:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/taliban-leader-says-afghan-women-won-t-be-allowed-to-play-sports"},"modified":"2021-09-08T15:41:24","modified_gmt":"2021-09-08T15:41:24","slug":"taliban-leader-says-afghan-women-won-t-be-allowed-to-play-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/taliban-leader-says-afghan-women-won-t-be-allowed-to-play-sports","title":{"rendered":"Taliban leader says Afghan women won&#8217;t be allowed to play sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sept. 8 (UPI) &#8212; A Taliban ruler in Afghanistan said Wednesday that women in the country will be barred from playing sports, including cricket for the national women&#8217;s team.Ahmadullah Wasiq, deputy head of the Taliban&#8217;s cultural commission, told Australian broadcaster SBS that the Taliban don&#8217;t consider sports to be appropriate in which for women to participate. Wasiq was asked about Afghanistan&#8217;s men&#8217;s cricket team coming to Australia in November and the International Cricket Council requiring participants to have both men&#8217;s and women&#8217;s teams.Wasiq said women will not be allowed to play, even if its means the men canceling their matches.&#8221;I don&#8217;t think women will be allowed to play cricket because it is not necessary that women should play cricket,&#8221; Wasiq told SBS. &#8220;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.&#8221;Tuesday, the Taliban announced its interim Afghan government, comprised of male Taliban fundamentalists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sept. 8 (UPI) &#8212; A Taliban ruler in Afghanistan said Wednesday that women in the country will be barred from playing sports, including cricket for the national women&#8217;s team. Ahmadullah<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,101],"tags":[58,102],"class_list":["post-177100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-world","tag-sports","tag-world"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177100\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}