aboriginal time the bourgeois Muslim nation has fielded women boxers internationally.
Khoushleem Bano, Rukhsana Parveen and Sofia Javed say to accomplish their dream of aggressive they had to action bourgeois groups in Pakistan who acquire women should not participate in the sport.
“It was not an simple aisle for us if we aggregate our abstraction of women demography up the blowing action in a bourgeois country like Pakistan. There were a lot of anti-groups who didn’t acquire us,” 23-year-old Bano said in the northeast Indian city-limits of Shillong.
Bano’s hopes of acceptable a badge were cut abbreviate on Saturday night if she absent her aboriginal action to Nepal’s Minu Gurung in the fly-weight (51kg) category.
“It was a acceptable acquaintance for me. I will appear aback stronger next time,” Bano told AFP.
Javed will yield to the ring for the aboriginal time afterwards Sunday adjoin India’s Pooja Rani in the 75kg category, while Parveen will cuff up adjoin Sri Lanka’s M. Vidushika Prabadhi in the evening.
Pakistani boxers Sofia Javed (L) and Khoushleem Bano (R)
The leash alone took up action in aboriginal 2015 and accept been accomplished by their drillmaster Nauman Karim — a brownish champ at the 2003 Apple Action Championship — for the South Asian Games.
They acclaim India’s Mary Kom, a five-time apple best who is aswell aggressive at the 12th South Asian Games, including a biographical blur of the Olympic brownish champ as alarming them to yield up the sport.
“My alone dream was to represent Pakistan. I alone wish to accomplish my country appreciative in the acreage of the sport. I accept accomplished the aboriginal footfall admitting all odds,” Bano said.
Parveen was aforetime a affiliate of the Pakistan Apple Cup aggregation for Indian wresting-style action kabaddi, with the aggregation acceptable brownish in 2014.
The 60kg class boxer from Multan in Punjab arena said she took up the claiming afterwards acquirements that Pakistan “had no woman boxers”.
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