Since the fall of the Taliban in 2004, only four Afghani women have competed in the Olympics for their country. But one 22-year-old kickboxer is hoping to change that. She is challenging women's roles in this male-dominated society and training other girls to fight alongside her. Kevin Enochs narrates this report by Hedayatullah Noori.
Since the fall of the Taliban regime in 2001, women in Afghanistan have broken many taboos in the ultra-conservative, male dominated society. Sport is just one of the fields in which women are now actively participating. VOA's Hedayatullah Noori recently spoke with the country's first female paraglider and her fellow teammates. Bezhan Hamdard narrates.