Khalilah Camacho-Ali, who was married to the boxer for ten years starting in 1967, has arrived in Kabul, Ahmadullah Wasiq, the head of the Taliban government’s sports administration, said AFP.
She was in the city “to build a sports stadium to be named ‘Pirozi’ (victory in Dari) and a sports association named after Muhammad Ali,” according to state media, which cited the directorate.
Camacho-Ali, who was born Belinda Boyd in the United States in 1950, turned to Islam after marriage, just like her former husband, a world-champion boxer.
In his capacity as a United Nations peace envoy, Muhammad Ali himself traveled to Kabul in 2002, one year after the US forces toppled the first Taliban regime, to visit a girls’ school.
