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Bacha bazi carries the death penalty under Taliban law. [21] Article 170 of the first General Penal Code of Afghanistan, which was adopted in 1921 and called for a fine and jail time for keeping bachas , was the first law on bacha bazi in the history of modern Afghanistan.
The Dancing Boys of Afghanistan is a 2010 documentary film produced by Clover Films and directed by Afghan journalist Najibullah Quraishi about the practice of bacha bazi in Afghanistan. The 52-minute documentary premiered in the UK at the Royal Society of Arts on March 29, 2010, [1] and aired on PBS Frontline in the United States on April 20.
Bacha posh (Pashto: باشا بوش, lit. 'dressed up as a boy', Dari : بچه پوشی ) [ 1 ] is a practice in Afghanistan in which some families will pick a daughter to live and behave as a boy.
The practice of bacha bazi by warlords was one of the key factors in Omar mobilizing the Taliban. [48] In early 1994, Omar led 30 men armed with 16 rifles to free two young girls who had been kidnapped and raped by a warlord, hanging him from a tank gun barrel. [49]
Municipal Inter College for Girls, Peshawar is a secondary school and intermediate college located in Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Pakistan. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The college is affiliated with Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education, Peshawar for both Science and Arts courses of SSC and HSSC .
Jacobsen wrote that a 2018 report by a US inspector general noted 5,753 cases of "gross human rights abuses by Afghan forces", including "routine enslavement and rape of underage boys by Afghan commanders" [45] Partly this reporting is referring to aggravated Bacha bazi type practices, which are centuries old.
The practice of Bacha bazi, a custom involving sexual abuse of adolescent males or boys by older men is reported to be common in the areas of North western Pakistan. [71] [72] While Pakistan has laws for the protection of children and banning of homosexuality, these are rarely enforced and bacha bazi is justified as a cultural tradition. [73]
Bacha may refer to: . Bacha (surname) Bacha (given name) Leucocasia gigantea, also known as "bạc hà" in Vietnam, a Southeast Asian vegetable; Bacha bazi (sometimes known as "bacchá"), a Central Asian tradition of keeping boys as concubines as women and girls are forbidden to perform for men