The Taliban says it wants people to visit Afghanistan. Here’s what it’s like
adding that seeing the remains of Buddha statues in Bamiyan and Band-e-Amir park were highlights. Her most memorable ...
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Museum of the Bible unveils world’s ‘oldest Jewish book’ in new exhibit
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 ...
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Rebuilding Buddha
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.
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Opinion | How New Rulers of Bangladesh Will Find It Tough to Fill Sheikh Hasina's Shoes
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.
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Taliban confirm arrest of two Britons and a Chinese-American
Taliban authorities have detained two Britons, a Chinese-American and their Afghan translator, the interior ministry ...