The barbaric tradition, whose name translates to 'boy play', has persisted for centuries and, while Afghanistan's current Taliban leadership claim to oppose it, Bacha Bazi continues as an open secret.

In Afghanistan, a disturbing practice known as "bacha bazi" continues to plague society as young boys, often pre-pubescent, are forced to dance for affluent Afghan men who subsequently sexually ...

Military veterans who served in Afghanistan have long voiced their disgust at the bacha bazi they heard about, as the West expended much blood and treasure after the 2001 invasion. During a visit ...

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He said that the Afghan border security guards had launched ... families who had been evicted from their temporary homes at Bacha Maina on the Pakistan side of the border a few years ago, while ...

but a majority of them “slipped away” and rejoined smuggler groups as most of them belonged to extremely poor families with no or very little sources of earning in Afghanistan. Mr Shinwari said that ...

On Thursday, Obama-administration flacks went out of their way to downplay Afghan child rape as “abhorrent,” but “fundamentally” a local “law-enforcement matter.” This is the price the ...