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Afghan women’s football team fled to Pakistan

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According to Pakistani officials, after the Afghan Taliban returned to power a month ago, Afghan women’s football team players wearing burqa have crossed the border and fled into Pakistan. This group of young players, their coaches and family members tried to flee Afghanistan last month, but were stranded in the country because of a major bomb attack at Kabul Airport. An international non-governmental organization wrote to Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan, urging permission to enter Pakistan. A total of more than 75 people crossed the border from the north, and then went south to Lahore, Pakistan, to receive garlands as a welcome from the locals. The new Taliban government has not yet made a decision on whether to allow women’s football and sports to exist.

According to AFP reports, the Afghan women’s football team fled to Pakistan. This group of young players, their coaches and family members tried to flee Afghanistan last month, but were stranded in the country because of a major bomb attack at Kabul Airport.

Sardar Naveed Haider, a member of Football for Peace, a London-based non-governmental organization (NGO), said: “I received a request from another NGO based in England to rescue them, so I Write to Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan and he allowed them to enter Pakistan.”

Yesterday, a total of more than 75 people crossed the border from the north and then headed south to Lahore to receive a garland as a welcome from the locals.

According to Agence France-Presse, when the Taliban ruled Afghanistan in the 1990s, they banned women from participating in all sports. Now they are in power and explicitly restrict women’s rights to participate in sports. A senior Taliban official once told the Australian media that there is no need for women to engage in sports.

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Afghan Sports Bureau Director Bashir Ahmad Rustamzai said on Tuesday that senior Taliban leaders have yet to make a decision on this issue.

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