They are not your typical Million Dollar Babies. They are Afghan boxers - women boxers! All I can say for now is "YOU GO GIRL !" But as with everything else in that battered and rugged country, I will wait to see how long their round lasts.
The barked instructions and sounds of feet running round on a matted floor are like any team anywhere in the world warming up.
But this training session is unique.
The people running round to warm up before putting on their boxing gloves are women - and this is Afghanistan. A new generation is challenging the usual stereotype of Afghan women as shadowy figures concealed from head to foot behind powder-blue burqas. ...
They call it "fighting for peace".
The boxers are in their late teens and these unlikely ambassadors for peace challenge pre-conceptions both about boxing and about women, particularly Afghan women.
Like most of them, Maleeha says she is there for recreation, but in halting English, she does understand the reason behind the project.
She says they are "fighting to end war".
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