In Spain, Afghan basketball star fears for the country she has left


  • World
  • Monday, 23 Aug 2021

Afghan national women's wheelchair basketball team captain Nilofar Bayat drinks a coffee in Bilbao, Spain, August 22, 2021. REUTERS/Vincent West

BILBAO, Spain (Reuters) - As she started a new life in Spain after escaping the chaos of Kabul, Nilofar Bayat said on Sunday she could not live under the Taliban, who she fears will reverse all the achievements Afghanistan has made over the past 20 years.

The captain of the Afghan women's wheelchair basketball team arrived in Madrid on Friday on a flight from Kabul with her husband Ramesh Naik Zai, 27, and over 100 other refugees.

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