This fight is not only for me but for all the Afghani girls back home, said Sadia, who is the lone boxer from Afghanistan in the ongoing Womens World Championships.As you know, since the Taliban took over, women havent gotten any rights to go to school or let alone do any sports so this fight is basically for them and the gold will be for them. The featherweight boxer started her career as a sprinter before she took up boxing.My long-term goal is to play at the Olympics and get a medal. Sadia is currently studying journalism.
A top dissident Iranian Sunni cleric on Friday denounced as un-Islamic Iran's alleged use of forced confessions to convict detained protesters, as weekly demonstrations continued in the county's southeast.
The Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act, 2018, has become a subject of debate in Pakistans Upper House as the matter of declaration of transgenders as a third gender on their national identity cards, along with permissions to have same sex marriages and sex change, has been tabled in the Senate and is being widely discussed on social media platforms.
The Bon Odori Festival to be held in Shah Alam next month ‘could affect our religion and beliefs’, Islamic affairs minister Idris Ahmad said. A local councillor slammed Idris’ Pan Islamic Party for ‘ignorance on cultural diversity in Malaysia’.