Poetry is very popular in all sections of Afghan society. The country's most famous female poet, Rabia Balkhi, is said to have wrote her final poem in blood on the wall of a room in which she was imprisoned. She had been imprisoned by her brother for falling in love with aa slave.
The national sport of Afghansitan, buzkashi, is often considered the world's craziest game! A game that has been played for centuries and was once the sport of rich warlords literally translates to "goat pulling". The object of the game is for the riders to place a dead goat in a goal...