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"Boxing is in our blood"

Monika Griebeler

In Pakistan, women's issues are a sensitive topic, even in the country's largest city, Karachi. Nonetheless girls learn to box here - and thus to fight for gender equality.

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Pakistan Mädchen beim Box-Training in Karachi — Image: Reuters/A. Soomro

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