Reporting from Kabul, Afghanistan — Leaning far off his horse like a polo player, amid a chaotic-looking scrum of other riders doing the same, the rider snatched the decapitated goat by a foreleg and ...

(MENAFN- IANS) Kabul, Dec 14 (IANS) Excitedly looking forward to the Buzkashi game and praying for his team to win the competition, a horse rider who introduced himself as Pahlawan described Buzkashi ...

The centuries-old Central Asian sport called buzkashi, in which players on horseback fight over a decapitated, disemboweled goat or calf carcass, is certainly to Western observers one of the world’s ...

Some have dreams of organizing the sport, taming it, seeing it in the Olympics, the isolated nation and its ancient sport claiming a spot on the world stage. Others think that the country's power ...

The announcer roared over the public address system as a lone rider separated from a melee of horses and galloped towards a chalk circle drawn in the middle of a muddy field in the Afghan capital.

The Taliban has permitted buzkashi, Afghanistan’s national sport, to continue despite previously banning it, drawing thousands of spectators but excluding women, according to The Washington Post.

BALKH, AFGHANISTAN - DECEMBER 06: Afghan horsemen play the traditional Central Asian sport "Buzkashi" in which horse-mounted players attempt to place a goat or calf carcass in a goal, in Balkh, ...

Aug. 30, 2002 — -- In the traditional Afghan sport of buzkashi, athletes and horses sponsored by the most powerful men vie to break out of a brutal scrum and into the open while carrying a ...

KABUL, AFGHANISTAN — Leaning far off his horse like a polo player, amid a chaotic-looking scrum of other riders doing the same, the rider snatched the decapitated goat by a foreleg and galloped off.

This story appears in the Sept. 19, 2011 issue of ESPN The Magazine. There aren't a lot of bats, balls or rackets in northern Afghanistan. There are goats, horses, men and dusty plains, and they have ...

The announcer roared over the public address system as a lone rider separated from other horses and galloped towards a chalk circle drawn in the middle of a muddy field in the Afghan capital. Despite ...