Afghanistan cricketer Rashid Khan bought married in Kabul on Thursday and whereas congratulatory messages poured in from his colleagues, many are bemused on the full lack of ladies within the pictures, together with the bride.
The Afghan T20I captain and his brothers Amir Khalil, Zakiullah and Raza Khan, have been all married on the identical day in a conventional Pashtun ceremony within the Afghan capital.
A number of folks have been perplexed by the truth that among the many many photos posted on social media, not one featured Khan’s spouse, or any girl.
Afghan cricketer and former captain of the Afghanistan nationwide cricket group Mohammad Nabi posted some pictures from the ceremony on X, congratulating Khan: “Congratulations to the one and solely King Khan, Rashid Khan, in your marriage ceremony! Wishing you a lifetime of affection, happiness, and success forward.”
One fan replied: “Woh sab toh thik hai par dulhaniyaa kahan hai? (All that is positive, however the place is the bride?)
One other requested why there couldn’t be a photograph of his bride along with her face blurred out.
In Afghanistan underneath Taliban officers, ladies are nearly excluded from almost all features of public life, with a number of nations expressing alarm on the systematic erasure of ladies’s rights.
In keeping with a UN report revealed in July 2024, the morality police have created a local weather of concern and intimidation amongst Afghans. The report mentioned it documented a minimum of 1,033 cases between August 2021 and March 2024 the place ministry staff utilized pressure throughout the implementation of orders, ensuing within the violation of an individual’s liberty, and bodily and psychological integrity.
After the Taliban seized energy in August 2021, they’ve barred ladies and ladies from training past sixth grade in addition to public areas, like parks, gymnasiums and salons. They additional restricts ladies from working in a horrific repeat of its 90s rule on the nation.
Afghan ladies should be accompanied by a male guardian, father or husband (mehram) in the event that they step exterior the house, or face punishment.
In August, the Taliban launched the nation’s first set of official guidelines geared toward “stopping vice and selling advantage,” which require ladies to cowl their our bodies and faces totally with thick clothes in public. Beneath these new rules, ladies usually are not allowed to let their voices be heard in public, even from inside their very own houses, together with by singing or studying aloud. Ladies are additionally forbidden from trying instantly at males who usually are not direct members of their household.
Penalties for violating these guidelines embody “recommendation, warnings of divine punishment, verbal threats, confiscation of property, detention for one hour to 3 days in public jails, and some other punishment deemed acceptable”.
The Taliban have reacted dismissively to the international widespread criticism and condemnation of their new guidelines, claiming it shows “vanity”.
Regardless of the ban, Afghan ladies are reportedly defying the Taliban by flooding social media with movies of themselves singing. The lyrics of a preferred tune say: “Their boots could be on my neck. Or their fists to my face. However with our deep mild inside, I’ll battle via this evening.”
