Pakistan's first all-female boxing club

A group of Pakistani girls are stepping out of patriarchal confines and into the boxing ring

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A combination photo shows students of coach Younus Qambrani posing with their boxing gloves.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Akhtar Soomro)Since 1992, Younus Qambrani has been training aspiring male boxers at his Pak Shaheen Boxing Club, a nondescript, one-room building in a rough neighborhood in Karachi,)

(Image credit: (REUTERS/Akhtar Soomro)The all-girls boxing club started by accident about six months ago when one of Qambrani's boxers introduced the coach to a 16-year-old girl who was being turned away fr)

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Lauren Hansen
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Lauren Hansen produces The Week’s podcasts and videos and edits the photo blog, Captured. She also manages the production of the magazine's iPad app. A graduate of Kenyon College and Northwestern University, she previously worked at the BBC and Frontline. She knows a thing or two about pretty pictures and cute puppies, both of which she tweets about @mylaurenhansen.