It’s just as thrilling as other competitive sports, like cricket and soccer,” said Narbay Pahlawan, a professional buzkashi ...

The fast-paced equestrian game of buzkashi is a welcome distraction in rural Afghanistan, blighted by drought and poverty, ...

Pakistan's military says troops acting on intelligence have raided a militant hideout in a former stronghold of the Pakistani ...

Following a deadly ambush on a Pakistan convoy bringing supplies to Kurram, a region bordering Afghanistan , social media ...

The Taliban has allowed buzkashi, Afghanistan’s national sport, to thrive despite past bans, drawing large crowds but ...

the Turi Shia community formed alliances with the former Ashraf Ghani government of Afghanistan, positioning themselves in resistance to the Taliban. In recent years, the Sunni tribes ...

The call for government-level dialogue with Kabul came at a time when the KP government proposed to send a delegation of ...

Afghanistan retaliated with its own cross-border ... has created unrest amongst the local people and tribes – old enmities have been revived, land issues exacerbated, and tussles for area ...

Afghanistan had witnessed the rise of the Taliban, an extremist militant movement that had taken over the country with the help of al Qaeda. In late 2001, the US, aided by anti-Taliban tribe ...

Kneeling inside his modest thatched hut, an elder of the Wauga tribe plays his bamboo flute ... A Kuchi nomad from the border region of Afghanistan with Iran. The Kuchis constitute an important ...

Today only a few scattered tribes of hunter-gatherers remain on ... The Kyrgyz of the Pamir Mountains in northern Afghanistan live at a high altitude where no crops grow. Survival depends on ...

In a bustling Afghanistan market, a rug vendor was approached by men whose journey to him had been two years in the making.