Michael Sheridan visited Pakistan and the mountains of Karimabad where women's football is booming

A YOUNG girl, wearing a thick jacket on top of her football kit, places the ball down for a free-kick and walks backwards slowly, pacing out her gargantuan Roberto Carlos-esque run-up. The other girls standing in the wall know what’s coming, and they don’t look pleased about it.
I am in Karimabad in northern Pakistan, equidistant between the wildly different worlds of Afghanistan and China, etched into the Karakoram mountains, 2,500m above sea level, the unlikely site of the Hunza Women’s Pre...