But having been attracted to the new Buddhist doctrine while they were in NW India, they, after their shift, sculpted imposing images of the Buddha in standing position in the Bamiyan Region in ...

A member of the country’s Hazara ethnic minority discovered the manuscript in 1997 in a cave near one of the giant Bamiyan Buddhas that were carved into a mountain in ancient times and ...

Taliban authorities have detained two Britons, a Chinese-American and their Afghan translator, the interior ministry ...

The obliterated Bamiyan Buddhas of Afghanistan and the vandalised statue of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in Bangladesh stand as solemn testaments to a resplendent past now obscured by the fervour of belief.

Two German-speaking Swiss men, Paul Bucherer-Dietschi and Bernard Weber, have established a consortium which plans to rebuild one of two obliterated Buddha statues in Afghanistan's Bamiyan Valley.

The Taliban have detained two British nationals, a Chinese-American citizen, and their Afghan translator due to undisclosed reasons. The daughter of the British couple detained, Peter and Barbie ...