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Seamus Murphy AWP / Newsweek / The New York Times Magazine
"Afghanistan's Search for Peace"





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"Gobahar" 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
 

 

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