The Afghanistan women's international football team will play its first match abroad when it competes in a weeklong tournament in Pakistan later this month, officials in Karachi said Monday.
Afghan women players follow a stricter dress code than their Pakistani counterparts. In addition to wearing long trousers like the Pakistani women, Afghan players also wear baseball caps covering their hair.
The government is trying to break social taboos in sport, especially women's sport, imposed by the former Taliban regime. The Taliban banned women not only from sports but also from education and forced them to wear the burqa, an all-enveloping veil, when venturing outdoors.
Signs of change?
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