5 hours agoTaliban: All national women from Afghanistan flee
Periskopi(5 years ago)
(5 years ago)Female players from Afghanistan's national football team have crossed the border to Pakistan. The girls had spent the entire month in despair over fear that Taliban would not respect women's rights. The adult girls' team had left Kanbul last month, but the young girls' team had remained [...]
The girls had spent the entire month in despair over fear that Taliban would not respect women's rights.
The adult girls' team had left Kanbul last month, but the young girls' team was left after lack of documents, the BBC reports, translates Periscopi.
32 players with their families won visas after lobbiing at charity “Futball for Page”.
Officials said the group, which had a total of 115 people, would travel to Peshawar to the eastern part of the town of Lahore, where they would be accommodated in the Pakistani Football Federation.
During the time of the Taliban ' power between 1996 and 2001, women were forbidden to play any sport. /Periscope
