No religion teaches us the way the Taliban has interpreted its religion to suit its own functioning to rule the country and terrorise innocent people. Tonsuring the heads of Pakistan football players and putting them in jail was a barbaric act. Footballers have been playing the game in shorts and T-shirts since time immemorial.
Football is played and patronised in almost all Islamic countries.
Although politics has intermixed with sports in many countries, it is the Taliban which has forced the entry of religion into sports. The Taliban fanatics overstepped themselves in the name of religion.