DAIKUNDI, March 23 (Afghan Women’s News Agency) – The Taliban group held the 7th Almond Flower cultural and artistic festival without the presence of women and girls and without the music art in the city of Nili, the capital of Daikundi province.
In the cultural and artistic festival of Almond Flower every year in the center of Daikundi province, the remarkable presence and performance of women and girls from ten districts of this province was noticeable, but due to the re-establishment of the Taliban, a period of this festival was not held and after a year’s delay, without women and girls, it was held in a symbolic way without results.
In this festival, the Taliban included special Taliban songs (without music), a theater performance by Daikundi male artists, and an exhibition of agricultural products, that only a number of men exhibited their agricultural products, but the women who exhibited their handicrafts and dairy and agricultural products in the past years were not invited by the Taliban to the festival.
After that celebration, the people of Knowledge area in Miramor district of this province had prepared to celebrate Nowruz and the “Knowledge Cultural Festival” which was a combination of Nowruz and Almond Flower celebration, but the religious police of Taliban in Miramor district prevented the largest Nowruz celebration of Knowledge in Miramor district.
Nine cows were supposed to be slaughtered during the Knowledge festival and distributed to the people as vows and alms.
According to local residents, more than 600,000 Afghanis were spent on this festival, but the religious police of the Taliban prevented the celebration.
Every year, on the occasion of the arrival of the new solar year and the blossoming season of almond flowers, the “Traditional Nowruz Knowledge Festival”, which is one of the biggest folk festivals in Daikundi, was held in a grand manner in the Knowledge Burger area of Miramor district in Daikundi province. Thousands of people from neighboring provinces such as Bamyan, Ghor, Ghazni and distant regions of Daikundi participated in that celebration.
The last time the largest Nowruz festival of Knowledge was held in 2021 before the Taliban came to power, with a significant presence and performance of women and girls.
