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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. [22]
Bacha bazi (from the Persian bacheh بچه, literally "preying on children"), is a form of sexual slavery and child prostitution [2] in which prepubescent and adolescent boys are sold to wealthy or powerful men for entertainment and sexual activities. This business thrives in Afghanistan, where many men keep dancing boys as status symbols.
The film uncovers a less-than-seamless transition, revealing rampant sexual abuse and killing of young boys by Afghan police commanders and other adult men as part of a cultural practice called bacha bazi, addiction to drugs such as opiates and marijuana, corruption, insider attacks and double agents inside the Afghan security forces, and false ...
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]
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]
Takht-i-Bahi (Pashto/Urdu: تختِ باہی, lit. 'throne of the water spring'), is an Indo-Parthian archaeological site of an ancient Buddhist monastery in Mardan, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.
Pakistan has been known to foster practices like Bacha bazi and/or dancing boys in its northwestern province. There are several self-declared vigilante groups who patrol the countryside looking to catch people in the act and punish them.
The Afghan custom of bacha bazi, a form of pederastic sexual slavery and pedophilia traditionally practiced in various provinces of Afghanistan, was also forbidden under the six-year reign of the Taliban regime. [23] Cabinet ministers and deputies were mullahs with a "madrasah education". Several of them, such as the Minister of Health and ...