Taliban adds chess to the forever growing list of things forbidden in Afghanistan

This Taliban forbidden chess in AfghanistanAdding the game by adding a long list of religious causes, the game forbidden entertainment and activities within the country.

Taliban officials said that the Taliban authorities will be this stopped for indefinitely According to the BBC, the appropriate chess is as appropriate by the Islamic law.

The movement to prohibit chess is the latest in the list of restrictions on the trial of increased cultural, social and sports events and vice-descendence and the vice-descendence. Hardline, Islamist Taliban returned to power in 2021.

Once there have been restrictions in an ordinary activity especially directed to womenHe bans them from public places, education and work.

Taliban Sports Directorate spokesman Atal Mashwani, Tolo news suspended by chess “Postponed for leadership issues under the National Chess Federation and religious concerns cover the game. “

The chess is considered a “gambling game” in Shari or Islamic law.

The Afghan Chess Federation has also been resolved as part of the ban.

A cafe owner in Kabul, who hosted regular amateur chess competitions, but gambling said he was never involved, BBC will stop tournaments, but he would hurt his bottom line, he said.

“Youth You do not have a large number of activities these daysYes, they came here every day, “he said in Azizullah Gulza.

“They will drink a cup of tea and challenge their friends to the game of chess.”

Also noted the AFP that “many Other Islamic countries have players At the international level. “

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Taliban, Taliban, as the Taliban banned the free battle such as the martial arts, said he did not match the Sharia (Islamic law) and very “violence”. The prohibition of MMA was followed by 2021 laws that prohibited the “fist”.

In October last year, the Taliban issued an order prohibits women loudly or reading the Qur’an in the presence of each other. Two months ago, they left the laws in August 2024 makes it mandatory For women to do all their body, including their faces, and always in public. Women’s voice was banned from reading, reading and reading, reading, reading and reading, to be heard, reading and reading, to be considered intimate.

Women are excluded from education after a sixth grade, many public space and most work. It is forbidden to look at men who do not associate with blood or marriage.

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