AFGHANISTAN THE UNKNOWN COUNTRY | BEUTY AND HISTORY BEFORE WAR | NATIONAL SPORT
Afghanistan is a landlocked country in South Asia watered by Pakistan the eastern salt Iran to the west and Turkmenistan Uzbekistan and Tajikistan to the north.
Afghan Sun British Empire had three historical battles the first 1839 to 1842 which led to the defeat of entire
British led Indian invaders.
the second started on 1879 and ended on
1880 which lead to the victory of British
on 3rd started 1919 which ended the same
year and lead it to the complete defeat of British and resulted the independence
of Afghanistan
Afghanistan has always been a land of the crossroads of history. it's rugged mountains and hidden valleys have been fought over for centuries by a succession of foreign powers keen to control this vital gateway to Central Asia.
a thousand years ago it was at the heart of the Silk Route a prosperous and cosmopolitan place where caravans brought trade along a road which linked Europe to China.
as the task of rebuilding this shattered nation begins it's a good time to ask, what kind of society flourished here.
before it was plunged into war about 38 years
ago very different picture of Afghanistan to the one we've become accustomed to.
it was a time when Kabul was famed as an
exotic stop off point on the hippie
trail between Europe and India that was the golden period of the Afghan because
at that ten years pink everything was flourishing.
Afghanistan was the first Asian country that had a women in Parliament Minister and Senator so women
were progressing going on to the higher before the war.
facts about afghanistan
- Afghanistan’s unofficial nickname is: Graveyard of empires Many of the world's strongest superpowershave tried to conquer the country and have failed.
-The US-led war in Afghanistan that ‘ended but hasn’t really ended, has cost the US more than 1 trillion dollars.
- Experts from all over the world have estimatedthat the untapped mineral deposits of Afghanistan could be worth up to $3 trillion.
- The world's first oil paintings were not paintedin Renaissance Europe, the were painted Afghanistan,
in the caves of Bamiyan, in the year 600.
- In Bamiyan you could also fInd two ancientgiant Buddha statues. Built in the year 507 and 554, they were reveredas astounding examples of ancient sculpture. Sadly, the Taliban destroyed the buddhasin2001.
- Afghanistan's national sport is as wild as you would imagine, it's called Buzkashi,
National sport of afghanistan
booze Kashi it's Afghanistan's national game and one of the oldest sports in the world it's called booze Kashi.
whose caching is a brutal ferocious struggle between men on horseback endeavouring to ride around an unmarked area holding on to a calf's carcass.
it's unwritten rules are seldom observed for many this game is a reflection of the violence and power struggles that have marked Afghanistan for centuries
in other words, goat-grabbing, but it’s not played with a goat it’s played with a dead calf.
It's a sport where two teams ride on horses and try to grab the heavy calf and score a
goal with it while the other team uses any means necessary to try to stop you from scoring.
