It was a marriage, by most requirements, opulent, extravagant and lavish — match for a world sporting star.
In Afghanistan’s capital Kabul, cricket legend Rashid Khan celebrated his nuptials at a marriage venue dripped in gold and opulent finishes.
Celebrating alongside the T20I spinner have been his teammates on the Afghan cricket staff, a few of whom snapped footage of themselves with the groom.
“Congratulations to the one and solely King Khan, Rashid Khan, in your marriage ceremony! Wishing you a lifetime of affection, happiness, and success forward,” teammate Mohammad Nabi wrote on X.
However there was one main lacking issue within the footage which have been made public to this point — his bride.
“The place is the bride,” questioned one X person.
“I really feel sorry for her,” Marzieh Hamidi, former taekwondo athlete for Afghanistan who now lives in France as a refugee, stated in a social media submit.
“This image is stuffed with males, the place is the bride?”
The Afghan Cricket Affiliation additionally revealed footage of the cricketer, wishing him and his new bride “a lifetime full of love, pleasure, and limitless happiness as you embark on this lovely journey collectively”, however with none visible references to Khan’s new spouse.
In some Afghan weddings, it’s customary for the ladies and men to be segregated in several rooms to have a good time.
In most public footage of Khan’s marriage ceremony, the boys are pictured in a single room with the groom.
Afghan ladies ‘erased’ from public life
The Taliban has obtained worldwide condemnation for its sequence of crackdowns on ladies’s freedoms since its 2021 takeover of the war-torn nation, in what many human rights advocates have described as a .
After banning ladies over the age of 12 from training and limiting their actions outdoors the house, the militant group banned ladies .
Khan has been criticised for not elevating his voice to the plight of ladies in his nation, together with .
Earlier this yr, from the three-ODI sequence in opposition to Afghanistan within the United Arab Emirates, citing the Taliban’s ban on ladies from larger training.
In responding to questions on ladies’s rights, Khan stated cricket was the “solely supply of happiness” for Afghans and shouldn’t be taken away from unusual folks.
“Some issues which aren’t underneath the management of anybody in cricket, and that is one thing we will not do something about it.”
