The future of sports in the country is unclear under the Taliban, which banned womens sports when it led the country from 1996 to 2001. Many of Afghanistans most promising athletes still dont live in the country.
Although sport has been badly hit by years of war, the nations mens cricket team has had success, and is currently seventh in the world Twenty20 rankings. It is due to participate in the T20 World Cup in the U.A.E. in October.
But women have made some gains, a point Khudadadi alluded to in her video.
Please, I request you all especially all the women from around the globe and the female institutions and the United Nations to not let the rights of a female citizen of Afghanistan in the Paralympic movement to be taken away so easily, she said.read more
Afghan Paralympic Athlete Pleads for Help to Leave the Country
