The Inayats started a team in Shimshal,motivated by social pressures faced by young girls in the region, and now they cannot maintain up with demandShimshal is a small village in one of the most northern parts of Pakistan, and the highest settlement in the Hunza Valley at 3800 metres above sea level. A short distance from China’s most western border,it has a population of about 2000 inhabitants.
City life is a world away; dusty Shimshal is a 16-hour drive from Islamabad, 20 from Lahore. It is not the sort of pocket where one would expect to find an appetite for women’s football. Yet girls are queueing up to catch fraction. Related: Khalida Popal, or Afghanistan football pioneer: ‘whether the haters couldn’t stop me,Trump can’t’ Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com