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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 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
It is also referred to as Bacha Gyavaun in certain parts of Kashmir. [1] Afghans of Kabul are credited with the parentage of this dance. It is a derivative of the Hafiza Nagma. [2] During the Bacha Nagma, a teenaged boy dressed as a girl dancer, who is trained in the Hafiza style of dancing sings Kashmiri Ballad and dances. This dance is ...
All bachas Gotra Rajputs are from Rishi Lacha and according to a story there is a relation of Shri Lakshman (Brother of Lord Shri Ram) to these gotra people, thus these gotra Rajput never touch any snake as they are originated from Lord Lakshman.
Bacha posh (Pashto: باشا بوش, lit. 'dressed up as a boy', Dari : بچه پوشی ) [ 1 ] is a practice in which some families will pick a daughter to live and behave as a boy. This enables the child to behave more freely: attending school, escorting her sisters in public , and working.
The Frontier Gandhi: Badshah Khan, a Torch for Peace, a documentary released in 2008, is the first full film account of Pashtun leader and nonviolent activist Abdul Ghaffar Khan, also known as Badshah Khan or Bacha Khan.
Abdul Ghaffar Khan (Pashto: عبدالغفار خان; 6 February 1890 – 20 January 1988), also known as Bacha Khan (Pashto: باچا خان) or Badshah Khan (بادشاه خان, 'King of Chiefs'), was an Indian independence activist from the North-West Frontier Province, and founder of the Khudai Khidmatgar resistance movement against British colonial rule in India.