Alem Rahmanyar Nilly Kohzad Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty November 18, 2020 SHEBERGHAN, Afghanistan — Abdul Rauf Amini, a horseman and breeder in northern Afghanistan, is the keeper of an ancient tradition. He grooms horses to ride and compete in buzkashi, Afghanistan’s national sport that involves teams of horse riders fighting over a decapitated and disemboweled
Tolo News: Afghanistan’s first buzkashi league held a tournament in Kabul on Wednesday with 200 participants from 14 provinces. The competition will continue for a week, and each day four matches will be held. The aim is to elect the top athletes for the national team. In the opening match, teams from Panjshir and Takhar
Tolo News: Officials of the Buzkashi Federation said on Sunday that the opening games for the first Buzkashi league will be held on Thursday, March 5, in Kabul’s Chaman-e-Hozoori area, and riders from 14 provinces will participate. The aim of this competition is to select the best riders for the national Buzkashi team, according to
Tolo News: The Afghan curling team held a training session on Sunday ahead of their match in the “Winter Games” in the central province of Bamiyan. Women curling athletes are also attending the event, said Halima Rezee, the chairperson of Women’s Curling Federation Committee. “We have the membership of Afghanistan’s Curling Federation, but we have
Tolo News: A group of athletes from different parts of the country gathered in Herat on Thursday to resume the buzkashi competitions in the province that ceased six years ago. Buzkashi – which literally means goat-dragging in Persian – is the Central Asian sport in which horse-mounted players attempt to drag a goat or calf
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (August 3, 2018): Kyrgyz riders played in a championship game of kok-boru (buzkashi) on August 30 in Bishkek. In the traditional sport, popular across Central Asia, horsemen battle to drag a goat’s carcass toward a goal. Copyright (c) 2018. RFE/RL, Inc. Reprinted with the permission of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, 1201
Tolo News: Buzkashi teams from five provinces in the northeast of Afghanistan competed in a one-week tournament in Badakhshan province. The Badakhshan team, the host of the competitions, won the tournament, the provincial buzkashi federation said. Head of the federation Mohammad Tahir Azimi said the tournament was held to celebrate the new year. Click here to
RFE/RL’s Kazakh Service August 27, 2017 Kazakhstan beat Kyrgyzstan 4-1 to capture the inaugural world championship in kokpar [buzkashi], or kok-boru — an ancient equestrian sport in which a goat carcass is traditionally used as a ball. The Kazakh team took home 10 million tenge ($30,000) for their first place win on August 27, while
RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan January 20, 2017 An explosion in northern Afghanistan has killed at least three people outside a game of buzkashi – a popular, traditional equestrian sport in Afghanistan and Central Asia that is similar to polo but uses a goat or calf carcass instead of a ball. The explosion was to the
Channel News Asia: With their whips cracking neighing horses, an unruly scrum of riders battled in a muddy field for the headless carcass of a calf — this is the Afghan sport of buzkashi. Passion, raw aggression, horsemanship and a fierce competitive instinct were on display in country’s biggest annual tournament held in northern Mazar-i-Sharif city, set