"I am a love man -- I am not for arranged marriage," he says. "Under the Taliban, it was very dangerous. If I looked at a girl; they would say, `Why you look?' Then they would fight me.
"But now Hamid Karzai is my chief. Since he become president he will allow the love marriage."
Regrettably, however, an unsavory side of modern sport has seeped in.
The prestigious Mr. Afghanistan crown lies unclaimed after controversy engulfed last month's contest.
There was a "small problem" with one of the frontrunners, explains a judge, Fazal Ahmad, of the Afghan Bodybuilding Federation.
"We suspected him of doping."
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