{"id":15278,"date":"2026-02-02T07:17:53","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T02:47:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/?p=15278"},"modified":"2026-02-02T07:17:53","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T02:47:53","slug":"bans-on-keeping-dogs-playing-ludo-and-womens-movement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/bans-on-keeping-dogs-playing-ludo-and-womens-movement\/","title":{"rendered":"Bans on Keeping Dogs, Playing Ludo, and Women\u2019s Movement."},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15290\" src=\"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/amazarrdd.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/amazarrdd.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/amazarrdd-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/amazarrdd-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/amazarrdd-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/amazarrdd-1536x864.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Bans on Keeping Dogs, Playing Ludo, and Women\u2019s Movement.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>The Taliban Department for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice in Sholgara District of Balkh province issued a new notice announcing a series of social restrictions and prohibitions.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>According to the notice, activities previously considered part of daily life are now banned.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>These include keeping so-called fighting dogs, playing Ludo and \u201cBajal,\u201d sitting in cemeteries, and unnecessary wandering in streets and alleys.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>The Taliban say these decisions were taken within the framework of their social and religious policies.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>According to official sources, the stated aim is \u201cfull compliance with Islamic Sharia and the preservation of religious values.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>However, the new restrictions have triggered reactions among citizens and social activists.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Some have described them as limiting individual and social freedoms.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>This action comes as the Taliban had already imposed extensive restrictions in social, cultural, and educational spheres.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>The new bans in Sholgara District represent another example of policies aimed at controlling daily behavior.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>These policies have a direct impact on people\u2019s daily lives and social freedoms.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bans on Keeping Dogs, Playing Ludo, and Women\u2019s Movement. The Taliban Department for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice in Sholgara District of Balkh province issued a new notice announcing a series of social restrictions and prohibitions. According to the notice, activities previously considered part of daily life are now banned. These include [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15290,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-political"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15278"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15304,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15278\/revisions\/15304"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}