KABUL 2011 (AFP) - Ten years after Afghanistan's ancient Bamiyan Buddhas were blown up by the Taliban, there is still no agreement on whether the war-torn country's best-known cultural icons should be ...

The volatile, uncertain, and conflictual relations between Afghanistan and Pakistan would not let China extend the branches ...

sculpted imposing images of the Buddha in standing position in the Bamiyan Region in Afghanistan which were destroyed by the Taliban a few years ago. These images Professor Perera states led to the ...

the Pakistani Taliban attempted to equal its militant brethren's infamous bombing of the Bamiyan Buddhas by trying to destroy an enormous meditating Buddha sculpture in Swat Valley. The six-meter ...

As a part of a television broadcast, world travelers Hal and Halla Linker toured the Afghan countryside in 1973, years before the Soviets invaded and the Taliban took control of the Buddhist site ...

To legitimize its custody of the manuscript, found in an Afghan cave, the Museum of the Bible invoked the Universal ...

In this interview he also argues that, contrary to popular belief, it was under the increasing influence of Al-Qaeda that the decision to destroy the Buddhas was taken and that, in fact, local Taliban ...

The Taliban government has signed five new mining contracts in Bamiyan province for the extraction of lead and zinc, valued at 1.797 billion Afghanis (US$22.7 million). Announced on Monday ...

Taliban officials say they are supporting ... adding that seeing the remains of Buddha statues in Bamiyan and Band-e-Amir ...

Akhund is probably best known as one of the architects of the destruction of the Buddhas of Bamiyan, the giant cliff statues destroyed by the Taliban in 2001. Initially, Omar had no intention of ...

Buddhas of Bamiyan: The colossal twin statues that stood sentinel over Afghanistan — until the Taliban destroyed them What it tells us about the past: Considered one of the most famous Neolithic ...

As a part of a television broadcast, world travelers Hal and Halla Linker toured the Afghan countryside in 1973, years before the Soviets invaded and the Taliban took control of the Buddhist site ...