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Dust rises as men spur their horses onto a field, signaling the start of another game of buzkashi, Afghanistan’s often-violent national sport designed to showcase the riders’ abilities and warrior spirit. Buzkashi, which translates roughly as “goat pulling,” has been played for centuries across Central Asia. Similar to polo, the sport involves two teams trying to accumulate points by propelling a headless goat carcass to the scoring area. These days, fake goat carcasses are used. Amid foreign invasions, civil wars, insurgent attacks and, more recently, the resumption of Taliban rule, Afghans have always gathered to cheer on their favorite “chapandaz,” as the

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