PESHAWAR: First-ever Girls Cycle Rally was staged in the Landi Kotal tehsil of the Khyber district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
15 women participated in the event, said Jamima Afridi, the event’s organizer and a social activist of Khyber district.
She said that the inspiring force behind planning the first-ever such event in any of the newly amalgamated districts was international women cyclist Samar Khan.
The rally’s participants showed a strong interest in learning how to cycle, according to Ms. Afridi and Samar Khan, who gave them one-day of training.
All the participating girls, according to her, had received parental consent beforehand, and mothers of some of them spent the entire day observing their children as they learned the fundamentals of cycling.
Although the training took place in a walled courtyard the day before the rally, she claimed that a small number of female viewers also attended the rally, which was held at Tatara Sports Ground.
Ms. Afridi stated that more such sporting events will be planned for the tribal girls so they could participate at the national and international level.
Samar Khan claimed the environment in the tribal areas was very different from what she had heard about, before visiting.
She claimed that tribal people were incredibly kind and eager to let their daughters engage in such healthy and beneficial activities.
She claimed that tribal girls had tremendous potential and that it was crucial to give them access to both basic and contemporary sporting facilities.
Read more: “Where are we heading with this mindset?” Shoaib Akhtar questions
