The Taliban government has added to its list prohibited activities, assimilated until further notice to a game of money contrary to the law on manners, an official at the France-Presse (AFP) agency (AFP) said on Sunday May 11.
Chess “Are considered a way to bet money”what is prohibited according to the law on the propagation of virtue and the prevention of the vice adopted last year, AFP Atal Mashwani, spokesperson for the Sports Department, told AFP. Subject to“Religious issues”,, “Failures will be suspended in Afghanistan as long as these issues are not treated”added Mr. Mashwani, without specifying the sanction in the event of a violation.
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Patron of a Kabul cafe where customers gladly devoted themselves to this game, Azizullah Gulzada, 46, announces that he will be respected the ban, but is not convinced by religious arguments. “Many Muslim countries have players at an international level that participate in international meetings”he notes with AFP. ” Many [jeunes] came here every day, without Paris of money ”he adds, regretting that they now have less pretext to come together.
After resuming power in 2021, the Taliban authorities gradually imposed their ultra -regigrist vision of Islam, prohibiting certain activities and certain sports. In 2024, MMA (mixed martial arts) competitions were banned, the government believing that they were too “Violent” And “Problems with regard to Sharia law”while the practice of cricket is still very widespread, but only in men.
Women have been gradually ostracized by the Taliban, who prohibited them from access to parks, sports halls, beauty institutes and universities, pushing the UN to denounce a “Gender apartheid”.