Afghanistan, the Taliban forbid sport to women: “They expose their bodies”. Street protests against the all-male government

The Taliban’s acts of repression against women continue. After the announcement of the provisional government, in the formation of which no promise of inclusion has been respected, the new intervention concerns the sport. The Taliban have in fact decided that Afghan women will no longer be able to play cricket or any other sport that “exposes their bodies” or shows them to the media. This was announced in an interview with the Australian broadcaster Sbs news by the deputy head of the Taliban culture commission Ahmadullah Wasiq. “I don’t think women will be allowed to play cricket because it is not necessary for women to play cricket“, he has declared. In the game, “they may face situations where their face or body is not covered. Islam does not allow women to be seen this way ”. Also, “this is the media age, and there will be photos and videos, and people will watch them. Islam and the Islamic Emirate do not allow women to play cricket or any other type of sport that exposes them ”. The move by the Taliban puts The expected cricket match in Australia is at risk in November between the two men’s national teams, because in order to play theInternational Cricket Council requires all 12 members to also have a women’s national team.

Meanwhile, today dozens of women a Acceptance and in the northeastern Afghan province of Badakhshan they protested against the formation of the new interim Taliban government all male. ‘No government can deny the presence of women’ and ‘Long live women in Afghanistan’ the slogans chanted during the demonstrations that – reports the Cnn – they were dispersed “with whips and sticks” by the Taliban. During the protests, some journalists were also stopped and beaten, according to witnesses cited by some foreign media.

Just to talk about the situation in Afghanistan, during the day the Prime Minister, Mario Draghi, had “an articulated telephone conversation with the President of the Republic of Turkey, Recep Erdogan ”. According to a note from Palazzo Chigi, “the fruitful and friendly exchange of views focused on the latest developments of the Afghan crisis and its implications at the regional level, deepening the prospects for the action of the international community in the various fora, including the G20 “.

Signs of satisfaction with the birth of the provisional government, whose members are terrorists and wanted by the FBI, came instead from the China. The spokesman for the foreign ministry Wang Wenbin he spoke of “a necessary step for the restoration of internal order and post-war reconstruction”. Beijing also warned about the changed situation in Afghanistan that has complicated the context of international and regional counter-terrorism and “some international terrorists in Afghanistan are planning to infiltrate neighboring countries”. On the EU front, the High Representative Joseph Borrel, interviewed by Ansa, asks for time: “We must speak with those in power” in Afghanistan, “mainly to guarantee evacuation efforts, but also to prevent a humanitarian crisis. But this in no way implies the international political recognition of the Taliban. In our engagement with the Taliban so far and in the future we will pay particular attention to their actions, to the respect of the international obligations accepted by the various Afghan governments for over 50 years. The Taliban government will be judged on the basis of their actions rather than on promises ”. An appeal to the international community, the UN and other regional and international organizations came from National Resistance Front of Afghanistan which asks above all to stop the Taliban genocide in the Panshir valley. He therefore called the interim government “illegal”. The resistance claims that the Taliban continue deliberate and large-scale attacks on civilians. They resorted to a “continuous campaign of massacres of people” across the province after the resistance inflicted heavy casualties on them in several parts of Panshir, a statement read.

A note from the former Afghan president was also released today Ashraf Ghani who apologized to the nation and said he regretted how “it ended” with the takeover of the Taliban. Ghani fled Kabul as militias of so-called Koranic students entered the capital, last August 15th. He also said he left Acceptance, after security warned him of the risk of a repeat of the “horrific street-to-street fighting” of the 1990s civil war. “I apologize to the Afghan people for failing to make things turn out differently,” he said in a statement. “Leaving Kabul was the hardest decision of my life,” but I think “it was the” only way to save Kabul and its six million inhabitants, “he said. Ghani insisted on denying that he had stolen “millions of dollars belonging to the Afghan people” and called for an investigation under the auspices of the UN to prove his innocence. Ghani he reiterated his attachment to democracy and apologized to the Afghan people for failing to guarantee “stability and prosperity for his country”.

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