Monday December 30, 2013
Kabul (BNA) Afghanistan would host the next year’s international Nawroz festival which is expected to cover traditional supports, an official said.
The National Olympic Committee which is a member of the cultural committee is trying to celebrate the great ancient festival through holding traditional and national hobbies and entertainments.
Meanwhile, President of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan Hamid Karzai has also assigned a commission to hold the next year’s splendorous international Nawroz festival in Paghman scenic district.
Advisor for the celebration of Nawroz festival of the national Olympic Committee, Ghulam Jailani Ghrob said that the Afghan traditional sports such as launching Buzkashi etc… would be big part of the national Olympic committee’s programs expected to welcome the great festival. He hoped the members of the cultural committee could play their effective role in celebration of the 1393 Nawroz with less than three months to arrive Nawroz.
Beside this, 12 types of sports such as football, volleyball and others would also be held in the country in the upcoming Nawroz celebration. The committee had also invited that sport federations of the country to attend the festival and conduct their competitions.
He recalled the ancient Aryana and Balkh to mark the festival with full magnificence and glory, praising the celebration to have long background of marking in the country.
He said the regional nations were also used to hold the festival, adding as a freshly getting rid of war and stepping up toward development, the Afghan people are highly interested to celebrate the festival.
According to him, Nawroz had been celebrated by the pre-Islamic era nations and they have narrations of the Great Aryana to have used to mark the day.
Nawroz is marked in different provinces of the country in different manners and customs.
In some provinces the people cook samanak, a type of meal provided from a household grown wheat plant, the extract of which are used in a flour paste and some other traditions.
According to Ghulam Jailani Ghrob, there is no province in the country, the people of which were unfamiliar with Nawroz festival.
A special ceremony is held in the northern province of Balkh, where a shrine attributed to Hazrat Ali is laid, with large number of people from some neighboring countries such as Tajikistan, Iran and some other central Asian nations attend the great celebration.
In the capital Kabul, some sites are chosen to welcome Nawroz, such as Khawja Safa, Shah Shahid, Damana-e-Sakhi, Kariz Mir, Tapa-e-Ziba Ustalif and Gulghundiin Charikar.
Also in western Herat province, the people have special places to celebrate Nawroz. Among the most popular traditions, Haft miwa [seven-type of dry fruit-made juice] and Haft Seen, five plant the first alphabet of which should be started with sin (S) in some parts of the country.
