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Maria Toorpakai comes from Pakistan's violently oppressive northwest tribal region, where in fact the notion of women playing sports is known as haram - un-Islamic, forbidden - and girls rarely leave their homes. But she have, moving as a son in order that can be played the sports she loved, thus becoming a lightning rod of liberty in her country's fierce battle over women's privileges. A Different Sort of Daughter explains to of Maria's harrowing voyage to play the activity she realized was her destiny, first living as a son and roaming the violent rear alleys of the frontier city of Peshawar, growing to be the number-one feminine squash player in Pakistan. For Maria, squash was more than liberation - it was salvation. Nonetheless it was also a loss of life word, thrusting her in to the national limelight and the crosshairs of the Taliban, who wanted Maria and her family dead. Maria realized her only potential for survival was to flee the united states. Enter Jonathon Power, the first North American to earn the subject of top squash player on the globe and the only person to heed Maria's plea for help. Knowing her perseverance and ability, Jonathon asked Maria to train and be competitive internationally in Canada. After many years of living on the run from the Taliban, Maria filled up and still left the only place she possessed ever recognized to move halfway throughout the world and pursue her goal. Now Maria is well on the path to becoming a world champ as she is still a speech for oppressed women everywhere you go.
