Female Afghan boxer Sadaf Rahimi (left), 19, takes a break during a selection bout at an inter-provincial boxing competition at Ghazi Stadium in Kabul. AFP PHOTO
KABUL: Nineteen-year-old Afghan boxer Sadaf Rahimi slams her punching bag deep in the bowels of Kabul’s Ghazi stadium, dealing blows to gender stereotyping and doing her part to exorcise history: it was on these very grounds that the Taliban carried out public executions.