To celebrate International Women’s Day 2016 (on March 8) we’re inviting you to send in your Qs to professional squash player Maria Toorpakai. Maria grew up in a violently oppressive tribal region of Pakistan, where girls rarely leave their homes and are forbidden from playing sport.
But Maria did, disguising herself as a boy for many years to follow her dream, and becoming a lightning rod of freedom in her country's fierce battle over women's rights.
When her true gender was eventually exposed, Maria was thrust into the national spotlight – and the crosshairs of the Taliban, who wanted Maria and her family dead.
Maria was forced to flee her country in order to continue playing and settled in Canada. She is now the number one female squash player in Pakistan.
Put your questions to Maria before midday on Tuesday 8 March and we’ll upload her answers to your questions later that afternoon.
Maria’s memoir, A Different Kind of Daughter tells of Maria’s harrowing Journey to play the sport she knew was her destiny. Read an extract here.
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