Saturday, January 12, 2002 Kandahar comes out of the closet from Tim Reid in Kandahar Our correspondent sees the gay capital of South Asia throw off strictures of the Taleban NOW that Taleban rule is over in Mullah Omar’s former southern stronghold, it is not only televisions, kites and razors which have begun to emerge. Visible again, too, are men with their ashna, or beloveds: young boys they have groomed for sex. Kandahar’s Pashtuns have been notorious for their homosexuality for centuries, particularly their fondness for naive young boys. Before the Taleban arrived in 1994, the streets were filled with ...
