{"id":7007,"date":"2025-05-12T03:00:23","date_gmt":"2025-05-12T03:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=7007"},"modified":"2025-05-12T03:00:23","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T03:00:23","slug":"taliban-suspend-chess-over-gambling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=7007","title":{"rendered":"Taliban suspend chess over gambling"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Taliban authorities have barred chess across Afghanistan until further notice over concerns it is a source of gambling, which is illegal under the government&#8217;s morality law, a sports official said on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Chess in sharia (Islamic law) is considered a means of gambling,&#8221; which is prohibited according to the Propagation of Virtue and Prevention of Vice law announced last year, sports directorate spokesperson Atal Mashwani told AFP.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There are religious considerations regarding the sport of chess,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Until these considerations are addressed, the sport of chess is suspended in Afghanistan,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>Mashwani said the national chess federation had not held any official events for around two years and &#8220;had some issues on the leadership level&#8221;.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taliban authorities have barred chess across Afghanistan until further notice over concerns it is a source of gambling, which is illegal under the government&#8217;s morality law, a sports official said on Sunday. &#8220;Chess in sharia (Islamic law) is considered a means of gambling,&#8221; which is prohibited according to the Propagation of Virtue and Prevention of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7007\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}