Sweeta hoped to be a professional boxer in Afghanistan, but after five years of training in secret, she believes that there is no progress for women under Taliban rule.
She tells ITV News International Editor Emma Murphy that she feels like a forgotten generation, abandoned with her future in tatters.
Taliban spokesman, Abdul Qahar Balkh, said women’s sport was considered neither appropriate nor necessary.
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