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A favorite Afghan pastime reflects the values of the country: strength, courage, and horsemanship.The dozens of turbaned horsemen on their prancing steeds assemble on a dusty field on the outskirts of this city in northern Afghanistan. Despite their ...
http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/0104/p9s1-wosc.htm
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- Bozkashinational Sport
A game that dates itself into Afghan antiquity. The name Buzkashi, literally translated means goat killing suggest it was derived from hunting mountain goats by champions on horseback. Today the rider or team who is able to pitch a dead calf across a ...
http://www.afghan-network.net/Culture/buzkashi.html
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- Buzkashi Yahoogroups
Buzkashi is a fast game, played on horseback in which two opposing groups try to gain possession of a headless goat carcass.Buzkashi means ‘goat’ grabbing ‘ and Many horseback ball sports can trace their origins to the games, for example polo and hor ...
http://sports.groups.yahoo.com/group/buzkashi/
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- Sportnational Afghan
The TurkicMongol people, and it is indigenously shared by the people of Northern Afghanistan. There are two main types of Buzkashi, Tudabarai and Qarajai. Tudabarai is relatively simple compared with Qarajai, even though they share similar objectives ...
http://walidsalehi.tripod.com/buzhashi.htm
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- Buzkashiasia Times
Sixfeet tall and athletically built, Palawan was 22 when he himself first began playing Buzkashi in the Jauzjan province of his native Afghanistan. Now 40 he still plays the game when he can as a refugee in this frontier town of Pakistan. There was, ...
http://www.atimes.com/ind-pak/BD13Df01.html
| | - Nationalsport Afghanistan
The ancient games played in Afghanistan. The name of this game is perhaps derived from hunting mountain goats by ancient champions n horseback.On the basis of popular beliefs and legends, one could say this game was played for the first time in the O ...
http://www.afghanistan.org/buzkashi.html
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- Then Checkbuzkashi
Its easy to think Americans have nothing in common with the people of Afghanistan, where beards are mandatory, women are shuttered away and Osama bin Laden finds refuge. Consider their national sport, buzkashi, an ancient game in which two teams of h ...
http://espn.go.com/page2/s/farrey/011011.html
| | - Gamebuzkashi Bootsnall
The carcass of a calf is soaked in cold water for 24 hours before the game so that it may be tough enough for the horsemen. Usually, a calf is beheaded, its four legs are cut off from the knee, and its insides emptied before soaking. Sand is sometime ...
http://www.bootsnall.com/travelstories/me/aug01buzkashi.shtml
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