Feminine gamers who’ve represented Afghanistan’s junior nationwide soccer group have managed to flee the nation and cross the border to neighboring Pakistan, in a bid to flee the now-ruling Taliban.
The women have been reportedly in hiding for the final month as fears unfold of ladies’s rights being trampled on by the brand new regime.
Gamers from the senior ladies’s aspect managed to fly out of Kabul to Australia in August, however their youth counterparts have been left stranded whereas missing official paperwork resembling passports.
After the Soccer for Peace charity lobbied Pakistan on their behalf, 32 gamers and their kin managed to acquire visas.
The Afghanistan Girls's Soccer ⚽️ group – Possessing legitimate paperwork for border crossing has arrived in Pakistan by way of the #Torkham border and was warmly acquired by Nauman Nadeem of the Pakistan Soccer Federation. #AfghanWoman pic.twitter.com/5AcRGi5n8V
— Pak Afghan Youth Discussion board (@payf_eng) September 15, 2021
The group boasts 81 individuals in whole, and an official from the Pakistani Soccer Federation stated that they might be housed on the group’s Lahore HQ, with an extra 34 individuals arriving tomorrow.
For 30 days, they are going to stay underneath tight safety after which apply for asylum in third nations aside from Pakistan, the official confirmed.
As lately revealed by The Unbiased, the gamers wrote to Pakistan PM Imran Khan to request pressing permission to enter his homeland as they felt they have been vulnerable to “grave threats”.
When Kabul fell after US troops pulled out following a 20-year presence within the area, the ladies’s nationwide group’s former captain Khalida Popal urged her former teammates to delete pictures of themselves plying their commerce and to burn their kits as a means of overlaying up their enjoying previous.
Simply final week, Ahmadulla Wasiq, the deputy head of the Taliban’s cultural fee, poured doubt on the way forward for ladies enjoying sport within the captured nation by saying their participation wasn’t crucial or acceptable when discussing cricket.
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“In cricket, they could face a scenario the place their face and physique is not going to be coated. Islam doesn’t enable ladies to be seen like this,” stated Wasiq.
“It’s the media period, and there might be pictures and movies, after which individuals watch it. Islam and the Islamic Emirate [Afghanistan] don’t enable ladies to play cricket or play the type of sports activities the place they get uncovered.”
In the course of the Taliban’s first rule from 1996-2001, ladies have been barred from having the ability to take part in sports activities and its ladies’s soccer group was solely established in 2007.
