New Delhi (EMS). 100 female football players, including members of the national football team, have been evacuated from Afghanistan. He was brought to Doha by flight, shielding him from the eyes of the Taliban. The Taliban is known for its repressive policy against women. “Around 100 football players, including female players, and their families are on board,” Qatar’s Assistant Foreign Minister Lolwah al-Khatar said in a tweet.
The group consists of at least 20 national women’s team football players. Along with the evacuation, the players were taken to a campus to undergo coronavirus testing. It is not clear how long they will stay in Qatar. Football’s world governing body FIFA is working closely with the Qatari government to expel players from Afghanistan. The international players’ union helped secure seats on flights for players from the Afghanistan women’s national team flying out of Kabul in August. After the fall of the Afghan government in August, the Taliban took control of the country again after 20 years. , which has since raised concerns for the safety of all women, including female athletes. Khaleda Popal, the former captain of the Afghan women’s football team, urged players in Afghanistan to burn their sports gear and delete their social media accounts to avoid retaliation from the Taliban regime. Many of the country’s female football players have gone into hiding since the Taliban came to power.
They fear that if the Taliban find out about them, they will not leave them alive. Shortly after the Taliban took over the country in August, Fanoos Basir, a former Afghanistan women’s national football team player, fled and said she had no future under the Taliban regime. “For our country, our future.” For, we had a lot of dreams for the future of women in Afghanistan. It was our worst nightmare that the Taliban would come and take over the whole of Afghanistan. There is no future for women.”
