The practice, called "bacha bazi" -- literally "boy play" -- has a long history in northern Afghanistan, but sometimes it does not stop with just dancing.
"I very much enjoy hugging a boy. His smell and fragrance kills me," said Yawar.
The 38-year-old businessman said he recruited a 15-year-old boy three years ago to help him with his work.
"I have had him for at least three years, since he was only 15. He was looking for a job and I gave him somewhere to stay," said Yawar, showing the boy's picture.
"I don't have a wife. He is like my wife. I dress him in women's clothes and have him sleep beside me. I enjoy him and he is my everything," he said, kissing the photograph.
"Everyone tries to have the best, most handsome and good-looking boy," said a former mujahideen commander, who declined to be named.
Former mujahideen commanders hold such parties in and around Pul-e Khumri about once a week.
"I was married to a woman 20 years ago, she left me because of my boy," he said. "I was playing with my boy every night and was away from home, eventually my wife decided to leave me. I am happy with my decision, because I am used to sleeping and entertaining with my young boy."
"I was only 14-years-old when a former Uzbek commander forced me to have sex with him," said Shir Mohammad in Sar-e Pol province. "Later, I quit my family and became his secretary. I have been with him for 10 years, I am now grown up, but he still loves me and I sleep with him."
Asked what he would do when he got older, he said: "Once I grow up, I will be an owner and I will have my own boys."
So, what are the tackling measures positioned?
Islamic scholars recommended harsher punishment.
"Those who do this are the devil," said Mawlawi Mohammad Sadiq Sadiqyar, a scholar and prayer leader in the main northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif. "Under Islamic law, those who practice this should be stoned to death."
But some of the men say they are not interested in women.
"We know it is immoral and unIslamic, but how can we quit? We do not like women, we just want boys," said Chaman Gul, aged 35 of Takhar province.
(Source: UNAMA Report, 19 November 2007)
Wallah, this is haraam! How can they claim to be Mujahideen? According to my extensive knowledge about jihad, fighting with guns is the final form of jihad. Jihad An-nafs is the most primary yet important option of Jihad- Fighting desires, being in control of one self.
A disgrace! A disgrace to Islam, a disgrace to Afghan culture and a humiliation to Afghan people. Most importantly, a disgrace to Mujahids who really fought with their intention purely for the cause of Islam and their country but are having their name washed in degradation. How can they call themselves mujahideen?????
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Don't believe everything you read. Media propaganda and exaggeration. Blowing issues out of porportion.
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