The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN-Pakistan) has appointed the country’s youngest athlete Mahnoor Saleh as the Youth Ambassador for Environment in Gilgit Baltistan, recognising her efforts to break the taboos and become a professional female winter sports player. “Mahnoor is an inspiration for all us to focus our efforts on environmental conservation and community development with a new and reinvigorated approach”. Dr Saeed Abbas of IUCN in GB told the participants that the IUCN conducted the activity to engage local youth in Nagar District to partake adventure sports training and practice. He congratulated Mahnoor Saleh and said she had broken all the taboos and brought laurels to the entire nation which was great contribution towards her community and society. He mentioned that the journey was not that easy there was huge resistance from the local communities due to social taboos.

Source: The Nation April 19, 2022 19:20 UTC