Buzkashi is a festival celebrated by Pashtuns in which two teams on horse-back attempt to snatch a goat from each other.

Buzkashi is the Afghan national sport.

Buzkashi is often compared to polo.

Buzkashi is the National Sport of Afghanistan.

In western China, there is not only horse-back Buzkashi, but also yak Buzkashi among Tajiks of Xinjiang.

A Buzkashi player is called a Chapandaz.

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

Buzkashi is the national sport and a " passion " in Afghanistan where it is often played on Fridays and matches draw thousands of fans.

Buzkashi is described at length in Episode 2, " The Harvest of the Seasons ", of the documentary The Ascent of Man by Jacob Bronowski.

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

Polo matches are played for fixed periods totaling about an hour ; traditional Buzkashi may continue for days, but in its more regulated tournament version also has a limited match time.

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

Whitney Azoy notes in his book " Buzkashi: Game and Power in Afghanistan :.... ( that ) leaders are men who can seize control by means foul and fair and then fight off their rivals.

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

Buzkashi was the subject of a book called Horsemen of Afghanistan by French photojournalists Roland and Sabrina Michaud.

In Rambo III ( 1988 ), directed by Peter MacDonald, John Rambo ( played by Sylvester Stallone ) was shown in a sequence playing Buzkashi with his mujahideen friends when suddenly they were attacked by Russians.

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