Afghan Football Official Should Be Prosecuted

Expand Afghan female football players from Isteghlal (in purple) and Afghan (red) compete during the women's football tournament final match in Kabul on December 6, 2013. © 2013 Aref Karimi/AFP/Getty Images With the Woman’s World Cup setting a new record for TV audiences, among those cheering the loudest are members of the Afghan national women’s team, who have a victory of their own to celebrate. As the games began in France, FIFA, football’s governing body, issued a lifetime ban on Karemuddin Karim, the president of the Afghan Football Federation, because of credible allegations that he…

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