{"id":36615,"date":"2021-09-08T19:32:02","date_gmt":"2021-09-08T10:32:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/08\/afghan-women-to-be-banned-from-playing-sport-taliban-say"},"modified":"2021-09-08T19:32:02","modified_gmt":"2021-09-08T10:32:02","slug":"afghan-women-to-be-banned-from-playing-sport-taliban-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=36615","title":{"rendered":"Afghan women to be banned from playing sport, Taliban say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Taliban interim government has loyalist hardliners in all key posts and no women<\/p>\n<p>Afghan women, including the country\u2019s national women\u2019s cricket team, will be banned from playing sport under the new Taliban government, according to an official in the hardline Islamist group.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with the Australian broadcaster SBS, the deputy head of the Taliban\u2019s cultural commission, Ahmadullah Wasiq, said women\u2019s sport was considered neither appropriate or necessary.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/08\/afghan-women-to-be-banned-from-playing-sport-taliban-say\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Taliban interim government has loyalist hardliners in all key posts and no womenAfghan women, including the country\u2019s national women\u2019s cricket team, will be banned from playing sport under the new Taliban government, according to an official in the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":390,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46,499,61,203,44,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-cricket","category-south-and-central-asia","category-sport","category-taliban","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/390"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36615"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36632,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36615\/revisions\/36632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}