Football, the great leveller!

Football, the great leveller!
Deutsche Presse Agenteur

Islamabad, August 20: Supporters of Afghanistan's Taliban in Pakistan got a thrashing for trying to enforce their peers' puritan Islamic rules on a football field, it was reported on Sunday.

According to Islamabad's daily The News, the supporters raided the football field in Landi Kotal town on the border with Afghanistan on Saturday to stop the game because the players were wearing shorts.

But the spectators disagreed with the 150 raiders that baring legs was against the Islamic code of decency and chased them out.

Apparently the Taliban supporters took their cue from last month's incident in which Pakistani footballers playing a friendly match in Kandahar, were punished for wearing shorts.