Taliban bans unapproved protests and slogans across Afghanistan | Latest World English News
Now moving on in one of the first administrative decisions taken by the new taliban regime it has cracked down on protests against its rule this is a decree issued by the interior ministry the taliban have warned all citizens not to hold any demonstrations under than any name furthermore the taliban have said that demonstrations need permission from the ministry of justice and security authorities must be informed at least 24 hours in advance and organizers need to disclose the purpose of demonstration even the slogans and banners which will be used and the locations where they will be used and held the taliban have won that organizers would face severe legal consequences if the procedures are not followed despite the ban there is a call today to take out a protest in support of the resistance in panchayat.
The protest call comes on the 20th anniversary of the assassination of anti-soviet leader emma masood responding to the situation the taliban have asked telecom company to shut down
internet services until 2pm in certain parts of kabul the areas are termani kerkhana but it seems that the taliban have already fallen back to their older habits in a video circulating now on social media the taliban fighters can be seen using whips and sticks against a group of women protesting in kabul in an astonishing show of courage the women reacted to the beating by shouting for freedom journalists covering the protest were also reported to have been assaulted in similar manners.
The past week has seen protests erupt in several cities across afghanistan women have often been at the forefront of these protests and the taliban have had to resort to firing in the air to disperse protesters more than once hundreds protested on tuesday both in the capital and in the city of herath where two people at the demonstration site were shot dead.
The man heading the interior ministry is sirajude he is wanted by the united states on terrorism charges he is the head of the militant group known as the haqqani network affiliated with the taliban and with close ties to the al qaeda this is a far cry from the moderate image that the taliban has been pushing.
Since it swept to power in another blow to women's rights a senior taliban official has now said that afghan women including the country's women's cricket team will be banned from playing sports who think they should not be on the field it is the media era and there will be photos and videos and then people watch it islam and the islamic emirates do not allow women to play cricket or play the kinds of sports where they get exposed.
We do not need sport they will get exposed and do not follow the dress code and islam does not allow that even if we face challenges and problems we have fought for our religion so that islam is followed we will not ignore islamic values even if it causes opposition we will not leave our islamic rules now for more on the taliban's latest dictats our correspondent anas malik now joins us live from kabul anders.
what can you tell us about the latest dictat from the taliban where the regime has warned all citizens not to hold any demonstrations under any name well yes today there was a bigger call for a bigger demonstration uh by the uh by the civil society representatives uh because today marks uh the 20th martyrdom anniversary of ahmad shah massoud as well and that call clearly seem to have gotten onto the taliban earlier last night we saw a statement coming in from sirajit in haqqani's office the ministry of interior which had banned a protest coming in being held from within the city within the capital city of kabul it also said that prior permissions had to be sought uh from the ministry of justice that included uh that included uh these type of slogans that had to be uh that had to be chanted they had to be approved as well after that today when i went around the city i saw they were increased check post it's been about today's the 45th day.
Since i've been here and it has never been that difficult uh how it was today you saw increased check posts increased security checkpoints uh thorough snapchatting being done by taliban men and they specifically saying that they had standing instructions to not allow media to film today's protest there was we saw only a handful of protesters going out on the road and then they we saw them being arrested as well bianca right on us the taliban have also banned women from participating in sports and nations like australia have already protested the move what can you tell us about the future of women's sports in afghanistan.
Well i was at the press conference there was a press conference more to do with clarification where i was when i asked this question the press conference was the those who were conducting the press conference were uh uh mr fuzzly the chairperson of the uh afghan cricket board and ahmadu lawasik the person who had made this controversial statement.
When i asked mr fazdi on on what he had to say he said that he would wait for the islamic emirate government to give a clear policy line uh with regards to women's support and that he would wait for that he said that they would be talking to other countries as well with regards to this because there are threats that are looming with regards to icc membership uh given that these are all the contours that have to be fulfilled before or a prerequisites that have to be fulfilled uh for the icc membership which includes women's cricket team as well and in case if that
is planned that then the threat of afghanistan losing its icc status that looms over so uh mr fuzdy the chairperson of the afghan cricket board he said that he would be talking he's awaiting instructions from the islamic emirate but on the other hand he said that the islamic emirates also encourages sports be that be from all of the sides control quite a few quite of a contradictory statement but as you speak there is no clarity on the way forward priyanka right honest thank you so much.
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