After the music stops the boys are raped by predators, usually from the higher echelons of Afghan ... half of all men in tribal areas of the south, predominantly inhabited by the Pashtun ethic ...

In the harrowing documentary 'The Dancing Boys of Afghanistan', Afghan journalist Najibullah Quraishi exposed the ease with which men acquire these children. Once young boys are sold by their ...

But many Pashtun men perceive that their manhood and very ... was compiled by Sayd Bahodine Majrouh, a celebrated Afghan poet and writer assassinated while in exile in Pakistan in 1988.