Pak-Afghan traditional Pashtun wrestling competition
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CHAMAN: A traditional wrestling competition was arranged in remembrance of the iconic Pashtun nationalist leader Khan Abdul Samad Khan Achakzai in the border town of Chaman, which borders Afghanistan.
More than 150 wrestlers from Afghanistan participated in the event, with most of them hailing from the Afghan province of Kandahar.
It was the first time that Afghan wrestlers had come to Pakistan to participate in the wrestling competition.
Spectators from Pakistan and Afghanistan were part of the audience, and had come from far-flung areas to spectate the wrestling competition.
The chief guest was Provincial Minster Balochistan Planning and Development Hameed Khan Achakzai, son of the Pashtun nationalist leader Khan Abdul Samad Khan Achakzai.
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Nov 17, 2015 09:51pm
Same blood. Just a man made border in between.
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Nov 17, 2015 10:33pm
@Sayyar Khan All borders are man made and all human have the same red blood. Not just the Pashtun in Afgha and Pakistan
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Nov 18, 2015 12:40am
@Sayyar Khan
Blood cannot be split by Border, especially artificial border.
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Nov 18, 2015 01:44am
Wrestling with full clothes on? Only in Pakistan and Afghanistan!
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Nov 18, 2015 09:13am
Exciting.. we should support and encourage to such healthy activities.
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Nov 18, 2015 10:32am
After long time these activities resurfaced and the credit goes to the current public representatives from this area. Otherwise across the border the stadium witnessed the shows of flogging of women and hanging which inevitably affected this part of border with phenomena of abduction,Vehicle snatching, looting, robbery and murder etc.
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Nov 18, 2015 11:21am
Beautiful
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Nov 18, 2015 11:39am
Kushti is a treat to watch. All the best to the Pehelwan fraternity in the subcontinent.
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Nov 18, 2015 12:40pm
probably ot is the tradition on subcontinent, not confined to place which you mention any way thanks nice to view anbd fall back upon the memories of young days
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Nov 18, 2015 01:38pm
Who won?
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Nov 18, 2015 04:16pm
Seems similar to the "mulakhro" kushti of Sind.
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Nov 18, 2015 08:27pm
The credit goes to this government for reviving the recreational activities in the deserted play grounds.
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Nov 19, 2015 06:24am
As one Pakistani-Canadian living in far-off land, but wishing friendship between the two countries - Afghanistan and Pakistan - I pray to God Almighty that these wrestling matches become a precursor for good relations between them.
Long live Pakistan-Afghanistan friendship!
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