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Wikipedia says
Bacha bāzī ...
refers to a pederasty practice in Afghanistan in which men exploit and enslave adolescent boys for entertainment and/or sexual abuse.
The man exploiting the young boy is called a bacha baz (literally "boy player")...
The practice is reported to continue into the present as of 2025