Afghanistan women’s football team flees to Pakistan
Young ladies who played for under-14, under-16 and under-18 groups show up in Lahore in the wake of Taliban's takeover.
Individuals from Afghanistan's public ladies' football crew have escaped across the boundary into Pakistan, a month after the Taliban cleared once again into power, authorities say.
As per Pakistan's Information Minister Fawad Chaudhry, the players entered Pakistan through the northwestern Torkham line crossing holding legitimate travel reports.
"We invite Afghanistan Women football crew they showed up at Torkham Border from Afghanistan. The players were in control of substantial Afghanistan Passport, Pakistan visa and were gotten by Nouman Nadeem of PFF (Pakistan Football Federation)," Chaudhry tweeted on Wednesday, giving no further subtleties.
It was hazy the number of Afghan female players and their relatives were permitted to enter Pakistan.
Nonetheless, Pakistan's The Dawn paper on Wednesday detailed the Afghan female footballers were given crisis helpful visas following the Taliban takeover of Kabul.
Afghanistan's new rulers, who prohibited ladies from playing all game during their first principle during the 1990s, have demonstrated that ladies and young ladies will confront limitations in playing sport.
The gathering of junior players and their mentors and families had attempted to get away from the country last month however a staggering bomb assault at Kabul air terminal left them abandoned, somebody near the group revealed to AFP news office.
"I got a solicitation for their salvage from another England-based NGO, so I wrote to Prime Minister Imran Khan who gave leeway for them to land in Pakistan," said Sardar Naveed Haider, an envoy of worldwide advancement NGO Football for Peace, situated in London.
Altogether, in excess of 75 individuals crossed the northern boundary on Tuesday, prior to heading out south to the city of Lahore where they were welcomed with bloom wreaths.
"They would travel and remaining in Lahore till they continue further," said PFF VP Amir Dogar.
The young ladies who played for the under-14, under-16 and under-18 groups crossed the land line wearing burqas, Haider said, before they later changed into headscarves.
The footballers are eventually expected to head out on to Qatar's capital, Doha, reports said.
A senior Taliban official has disclosed to Australian media it was "excessive" for ladies to play, as indicated by an AFP report.
Yet, on Tuesday, Bashir Ahmad Rustamzai, Afghanistan's new chief general for sport, said high level Taliban pioneers were all the while choosing.
Pakistan's Prime Minister Imran Khan is a previous worldwide cricketing star and sports legend among Pakistanis.
A huge number of Afghan nationals have escaped the country since the Taliban held onto power, dreading retaliation assaults or suppression.
Last week, the Taliban reported an all-male interval government for Afghanistan stacked with veterans of their hardline standard from the 1990s and the 20-year fight against the United States-drove alliance.
The move appears far-fetched to win the worldwide help the new pioneers frantically need to keep away from a financial and philanthropic emergency.
