Two books have been written about Buzkashi which were later turned into films.

Afghanistan's national sport Buzkashi and a number of other sports are also played in the region.

Ahmad says that now he has a horse and can therefore ride Buzkashi.

Similarly horses used in Buzkashi also undergo severe training and due attention.

Rafi doubts him and says that you need a horse to ride Buzkashi.

Buzkashi involves two teams of horse riders, a dead goat and few rules.

Buzkashi was, and still is, Afghanistan's national passion.

He began playing Buzkashi at age 15.

At the time that he began playing, Buzkashi was a rite of passage for young men in the Kunduz region.

He is a sponsor of the top Buzkashi player Aziz Ahmad.

The Buzkashi rider does the same"

Before that Ahmad gives him a scarf from a Buzkashi rider to make him brave.

He ties the scarf from the Buzkashi rider to a pole and proclaims Ahmad's name.

Aziz Ahmad (born c. 1964) is a professional Buzkashi player from Afghanistan.

The political game of buzkashi that "the magnificent seven" have been playing among themselves in Peshawar has long frustrated the commanders fighting inside Afghanistan.

Horse races and occasionally kökpar (see Buzkashi on), take place at the Hippodrome, several kilometres north of the centre.

The calf in a Buzkashi game is normally beheaded and disemboweled and has its limbs cut off at the knees.

The game the Kamuniks play with Laureline is based on Buzkashi, the national sport of Afghanistan.

I drove past tree-shaded parks that smelled like bark, past strip malls big enough to hold five simultaneous Buzkashi tournaments.

They marvel at the sportsmanship, and Ahmad tells Rafi that someday he is going to be a Buzkashi champion.

Ahmad remained in Kabul until leaving the city in 1996 shortly before it fell to the Taliban, who then banned Buzkashi.

During the rule of the Taliban regime, Buzkashi was banned in Afghanistan, as the Taliban considered the game immoral.

Horsemen try to grab the headless carcass of a goat during a Buzkashi competition in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan.

Like other Afghans, many Pashtuns engage in 'Buzkashi' and wrestling ('Pehlwani'), which is often part of larger sporting events.

The 2012 joint international-Afghan short film Buzkashi Boys depicts a fictional story centered around the game, and has won awards at several international film festivals.