Karishma Ali (c.1997) is a footballer and the first girl from her hometown of Chitral, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, to represent Pakistan at national and international levels.

[1] In 2016, Ali represented Pakistan at the Jubilee Games held in Dubai and was part of the first Pakistani women's team to participate in the Australian Football League International Cup in 2017.

[7][8] In 2016, Karishma got the opportunity to represent Pakistan by becoming a part of the international football team playing for Jubilee games in Dubai.

After coming back from the Jubilee games in 2016, Ali says she was inspired to work for the underprivileged people of her hometown and she started arranging football training camps for girls schools.

Karishma hopes to create proper football grounds in the future, for the girls of Chitral to play in a safe environment.

In an interview she said: "Ten years from now I want to see at least 10-20 more girls like myself who come back here [Chitral] after they've achieved their dream and work for the other girls that I was not able to reach out to and, slowly, I see a progressive society where men and women are working equally, where women do not have to stress about traditional customs, and be able to freely do what they can and see that I was part of all of this change.

Karishma Ali was selected for Commonwealth Youth Senior Officials Meeting in Brunei, where she represented Pakistan.

According to Forbes: "Karishma Ali of Chitral, Pakistan is the first girl from her hometown to have played football at a national and international level.

[17] In Pakistan, Jean collaborated with Karishma Ali to create designs, using traditional embroidery from the Chitral and Kalash area.

[17] She later thanked the designer for paying a 'heart-felt homage to our culture by infusing the embroidery done by women of Pakistan in the northern areas as an essential part of her collection[18]' Karishma's achievement as a female footballer was met with much curiosity and criticism from the public.