Global News Portfolio: Buzkashi: Game of Afghanistan

With the sound of screaming horses and whips, horsemen try to beat their horses to get them into the scrum where they will try to reach down to the ground from their horse and pick up the carcass of a dead calf. The popular game, banned under the Taliban, is a match between villagers on horseback pitted against each other with the winner earning a sizable cash prize.
Game of Afghanistan , Khenj, Afghanistan

With the sound of screaming horses and whips, horsemen try to beat their horses to get them into the scrum where they will try to reach down to the ground from their horse and pick up the carcass of a dead calf. The popular game, banned under the Taliban, is a match between villagers on horseback pitted against each other with the winner earning a sizable cash prize.