Afghanistan has also participated at the Asian Winter Games since 2007 but missed the 2017 edition held in Sapporo.

Afghanistan was one of the five founding members of the Asian Games Federation on 13 February 1949, in New Delhi; the organisation was disbanded on 26 November 1981 and replaced by the Olympic Council of Asia.

However, the OCA has since amalgamated them into a single event, the Asian Indoor-Martial Arts Games, which will be debuted in 2013 in Incheon, South Korea.

For example, the International Boxing Association (AIBA) does not allow players to have beards and mustaches, but Afghan males were forbidden to cut their facial hair.

[11][12] Afghanistan returned to the Asian Games after the fall of the Taliban government in the midst of an ongoing war.

The First Asian Youth Games were held in Singapore from 29 June 2009 to 7 July 2009 and featured over 90 sporting events.