The Taliban add failures to the ever -increasing list of prohibited things in Afghanistan – National
The Taliban prohibited failures in Afghanistan, citing religious reasons, adding the game to a long list of hobbies and activities that are prohibited across the country.
Quoting fears that the game be a source of play, the Taliban officials said that it would be suspended indefinitely until it is determined how compatible failures are compatible with Islamic law, reports the BBC.
The decision to prohibit failures is only the last of a constantly increasing list of restrictions on cultural, social and sports events dictated by the spread of vice vice vice vice from the hard line, the Islamist Taliban came to power in 2021.
Restrictions on formerly common activities were particularly directed against women, prohibiting them from public spaces, education and jobs.
Atal Mashwani, spokesperson for the Taliban sports management, told Tolo News that failures had been suspended “due to leadership problems within the National Federation of Chess and Religious concerns surrounding the game”.
He said that failures in sharia or Islamic law are considered “a means of play”.
The Federation of the failures of Afghanistan was also dissolved within the framework of the prohibition.
A coffee owner in Kabul, who organizes regular amateur chess competitions, but says that the game is never involved, the tournaments would be suspended to the BBC but that it would harm his results.
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“Young people do not have many activities these days, so many came here every day,” said Azizullah Gulzada at the point of sale.
“They would have a cup of tea and would challenge their friends to a chess game.”
He also spoke to AFP that “many other Islamic countries have players at the international level”.
The decision to ban failures comes only a few months after the Taliban prohibited free fighting, such as mixed martial arts, saying that he was not aligned with Sharia law (Islamic law) and was too “violent”. The ban on MMA follows a 2021 law which prohibited the “face of face”.
Last October, the Taliban published a decree that prohibits women from praying aloud or reciting the Koran in the presence of the other. Two months earlier, in August 2024, they issued laws, which makes women compulsory for women to veil their entire bodies, including their faces, at all times in public. Women have also been forbidden from singing, reciting and reading aloud in public, because a woman’s voice is deemed “intimate” and should not be heard.
Women are already excluded from education after the sixth year, many public spaces and most jobs. It is also forbidden to look at men to whom they are not bound by blood or marriage.
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