This photograph taken on July 7, 2026 shows young boxer Hoorain Zahra shadowboxing during a sparring session at a local boxing club in Karachi's Lyari town. Women boxers recently captured the nation's attention again when Fatima Zahra became Pakistan's first female Commonwealth Games boxing medallist, winning bronze in the 60kg category in Glasgow in late July. Thirteen-year-old Zahra, like her idol Aliya Soomro, hails from the sports-mad Lyari neighbourhood in the port city of Karachi, a gritty community once haunted by gang violence and poverty. (Photo by Asif HASSAN / AFP via Getty Images)