Afghanistan's Search for Peace,'Gobahar'

Seamus Murphy

Newsweek/NY Times Magazine

The Afghan people live their lives as they always have done through their history , at once both the victims and ultimate survivors of their own fate. Afghan horseman and spectators at a Buzkashi event set amongst the ruins of war near Golbahar ,north of Kabul. It is one week before the fall of Kabul , and in anticipation of victory for the Northern Alliance over the Taliban a game of Buzkashi is organised. A wild game that involves competing on horseback over a headless goat,Buzkashi was banned by the Taliban. Nov 2001

Seamus Murphy, "Afghanistan's Search for Peace,'Gobahar'," in POYi Archive, Item #35596, http://archive.poy.org/items/show/35596 (accessed April 28, 2024).