Buzkashi, Kok-boru or Oglak Tartis (Persian: بزکشی bozkæšī, Tajik: бузкашӣ buzkašī: goat grabbing) (Uzbek, Tatar, Turkmen: kökbörü, kök "blue" börü "wolf", Kazakh: көкпар, Kyrgyz: улак-тартыш) is a traditional Central Asian team sport played on horseback. The steppes' people were skilled riders who could grab a goat or calf from the ground while riding a horse at full gallop. The goal of a player is to grab the carcass of a headless goat or calf, and then get it clear of the other players and pitch it across a goal line or into a target circle or vat.
The game is known as Buzkashi in Afghanistan and among Persian-speaking populations of Central Asia while in Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan the game is referred to as Kok-boru or Ulak Tartysh.[1]

This set of photos was made in 1990 on a Sunday evening in one of the large Afghan refugee camps on the outskirts of Peshawar, in Pakistan's North West Frontier Province.