. Former Afghan women’s soccer captain Khalida Popal was a key" player" in getting the girls and others

KABUL, Afghanistan— Players from Afghanistan women’s national soccer team had an “ important victory ” on Tuesday when they were among a group of more than 75 people evacuated on a flight from Kabul. Global soccer players’ union FIFPRO thanked the Australian government for making the evacuation of players, team officials and family members possible, with work continuing to help more leave Afghanistan.... World NationAs Afghans try to figure out Taliban’s new rules, burqas are barometer of sorts

Victor Mancilla/ U.S. Marine Corps UK coalition forces, Turkish coalition forces, and U.S. Marines assist a child during an evacuation at Hamid Karzai International Airport, Kabul, Afghanistan, Aug.... 19, 2021 after Taliban's military takeover of Afghanistan.... But Paulett and O' Mara Vignarajah also noted that people should be cautious about where their donations go....

The Pentagon claimed they argued to shut down the airport gate that later became the site of the attack by a suicide bomber, but Britain refused.... She saw everything." There was blood everywhere, she told us, and they were slipping in it when they were trying to get up." It was so loud that some of them are still deaf and can't hear each other.... Vote now and tell us more about your opinion in the comments section below....

Join our Whatsapp channel KABUL: Afghanistan Women’s National Team( AWNT) players in exile urged athletes worldwide to stand in solidarity with them as they fight for their right to compete after being excluded from World Cup qualifying competitions since the Taliban takeover in 2021. Many players from the Afghanistan women’s team fled the country at the time for fear of persecution after the Taliban took control of the Afghan government. The women’s team has since been unable to compete interna

PESHAWAR, Pakistan — Nearly two dozen female soccer players from Afghanistan have crossed into Pakistan along with their families, joining a growing number of prominent Afghan women and girls fleeing their country amid fears of repression under Taliban rule. Support our journalism.... Other evacuation efforts have followed. Ashfaq Hussain Shah, the president of the Pakistan Football Federation, said the 22 players and their families who crossed into Pakistan early Wednesday had been transported

Open this photo in gallery Evacuees board a C-17 Globemaster III transport aircraft during an evacuation at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Aug.... 3 to visit his ailing mother and his family, according to Diego Osorio, a Canadian supporter who has been helping Mr.... “ I am not going to comment on operational matters for reasons of security, ” he said. The Canadian Globemaster flight carried 188 people but other countries with the same aircraft are managing to lift more....

They took down her details, enquired about her job at an aid organisation and her salary and told her to resume working, she said. READ MORE HEREWHO slams wealthy nations' rush towards Covid-19 vaccine boosters The World Health Organisation( WHO) condemned on Wednesdaythe rush by wealthy countries to provide Covid-19 vaccine booster shots, while millions around the world have yet to receive a single dose. Speaking before the US authorities announced that all vaccinated Americans would soon be el

KABUL, Afghanistan — As the Afghan poet and former leftist revolutionary Sulaiman Layeq was suffering from blast wounds that never healed, his verses dried up.In the final months before his death, his children would bring Mr.... Layeq the incomplete draft of his magnum opus that had occupied him for four decades.In 800-pages of rhyming verse, the poet wrestles with the thoughts of the epic’s main subject: a young member of the Islamist insurgency that would eventually topple the communist gover

image source, Getty Images image captionWomen footballers arrive in PakistanFemale players from Afghanistan's junior national soccer team have crossed the border into Pakistan.... Thirty-two players and their families won visas after the charity" Football for Peace" lobbied Pakistan.... An official with Pakistan's Football Federation said the group, totalling 81 people, would be housed at the federation's headquarters in the eastern city of Lahore....