Afghan Girls' Football Team Flees To Pakistan

Afghan female youth soccer players have fled Taliban rule for Pakistan

Female soccer players from several of Afghanistan's youth teams are under tight security in Pakistan after crossing the Torkham border. The new Taliban government has told SBS News it won't allow women to "play the kind of sports where they get exposed".

News Wrap: Afghanistan's women's soccer team escape to Pakistan

In our news wrap Wednesday, members of the Afghan women's soccer team along with coaches and families crossed into Pakistan and will seek asylum in other countries. North and South Korea traded missile tests amid rising tensions. Pope Francis says Catholic clerics should not mix politics with Communion. Boston voters have chosen Michelle Wu and Annissa Essaibi George for a mayor's run-off.

Former soccer captain helps Afghanistan's junior women's team escape to Pakistan

Former national soccer team captain Khalida Popal said that she told members of Afghanistan's national junior women's soccer team that if they wanted to stay alive they'd have to flee the country.

Afghan female youth footballers flee Taliban by crossing border to Pakistan

Female players who have represented Afghanistan's junior national football team have managed to flee the country and cross the border to neighboring Pakistan, in a bid to escape the now-ruling Taliban.The girls were reportedly in hiding for the last month as fears spread of women's rights being trampled on by the new regime.Players from the senior women's side managed to fly out of Kabul to Australia in August, but their youth counterparts were …

Afghanistan's girls' football players fled Taliban rule for Pakistan

Officials claimed Wednesday that members of Afghanistan's national junior girls' football team have escaped across the border into Pakistan. This comes a month after the hardline Taliban surged back into power, trapping members of the Afghan Girls National Youth Football Team in dread of their lives. According to a campaigner, the girls who participated in the under-14, under-16, and under-18 teams crossed the northern land border wearing burqas…

Afghan girls' soccer team flees to Pakistan

The Afghan youth girls' soccer team has fled Afghanistan from the land border with Pakistan after the Taliban takeover of the country and the subsequent restrictions on women playing sports in the cou