Dozens of Afghan girls with promising football careers, who fled the Taliban, have been told they can come to the UK to be resettled, along with their families.
The 35-member squad - aged 13-19 - fled Kabul last month and have been staying for the past few weeks in a hotel in Pakistan, where their temporary visas were due to expire on Monday.
"We are working to finalise visas to the Afghan Women's Development Team and look forward to welcoming them to the UK shortly," a UK government spokesman said.
The girls faced having to return to Afghanistan if another country had not accepted them.
"I'm absolutely thrilled for them to have a second chance at life," said the chairman of the foundation, Jonathan Kendrick, who financed the operation to get them on buses out of Afghanistan and to stay in Lahore.
Ms Gill told the BBC the girls had become extremely nervous about what would happen to them, but were now hugely relieved.
The girls, along with their coaches and family members, had been due to be evacuated to Qatar at the end of August.
But with their Pakistani visas about to run out, Ms Gill said, the "platform was burning" because it would have been far too dangerous for them to return to Afghanistan?
The former women's football team captain, Khalida Popal, had warned players to burn their kits and delete social media images of them playing for fear of retribution from the Taliban.
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