Sports competition for youth held in Afghanistan's Kabul

STORY: Sports competition for youth held in Afghanistan's Kabul DATELINE: April 19, 2022 LENGTH: 00:01:38 LOCATION: Kabul CATEGORY: SPORTS SHOTLIST: 1. various of the sports competition for youth STORYLINE: A total of 72 Afghan youths participated in a running and shooting competition held in Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan on Monday. "The one-day friendly competition held in Kabul aimed at promoting sports among the youth. Sports can contribute to the development of our society and directly affect the health of our youth," Khoshal Sarwari, chairman of the Modern Pentathlon Federation of Afghanistan, told Xinhua. The 72 youths and teenagers who participated in the race were from Kabul, Bamiyan, Ghazni and Logar provinces, according to Sarwari. The Taliban-led caretaker government and the Afghan National Olympic Committee were supporting sports in the war-torn country, Sarwari said. Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from Kabul. (XHTV)