Staying behind in Afghanistan
A player for the Afghan national women's soccer team could have left the country. But she decided to stay behind and face the Taliban.
For 7 years, Khatera played connected the Afghan nationalist women’s shot team. First arsenic a defender, past arsenic a forward.
She received aggregate decease threats from the Taliban and was regularly harassed. But she ne'er stopped playing the beauteous game.
Last week, she had a aureate accidental to flight Kabul with different teammates who recovered refuge successful Australia.
But she decided to enactment down and look the Taliban.
In an exclusive interrogation with Newsy, she says she stayed due to the fact that she cares for her parents and for a sister with Down Syndrome — and due to the fact that she tin assistance different stranded pistillate athletes amended from wrong the country.
Khatera is moving time and nighttime seeking assistance from NGOs and occidental nations to get different friends retired of danger.
But with the Taliban present successful afloat control, her ngo is getting harder by the hour.
This communicative was primitively reported by Ben Schamisso astatine Newsy.com.
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