Ski Afghanistan? A country in transition
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Dava Castillo
Bāmīyān :: Afghanistan | updated 2012-07-27 17:10:22 -0700 | arts-culture-news
Located on the ancient Silk Road at 9,200 feet Bamiyan is at the crossroads between the East and West when all trade between China and the Middle East passed through. Today it has a population of approximately 61,000 and before...
Harsh winter gives hope to Afghan farmers
Posted by: sadiqameen
Kabul :: Afghanistan | updated 2012-04-07 14:22:12 -0700 | arts-culture-news
Afghanistan grows about 90 per cent of the world’s opium, according to the UN drugs and crime office UNODC. The Afghan economy has always been based on agriculture, despite the fact that only 13 per cent of its total land...
In Kabul, held the first in many years, the rock festival
Posted by: Munna1721
Kabul :: Afghanistan | updated 2012-04-10 11:00:37 -0700 | arts-culture-news
The organization of the festival was held in secret: the time and venue were not known until the day of its inception. The organization of the festival was conducted in secret, time and venue were not known until the day...
The 2,000-year-old artifacts of Afghanistan saved from Black Market
Posted by: nisarhussain18
Kabul :: Afghanistan | updated 2012-11-02 10:32:44 -0700 | arts-culture-news
Feared lost forever, 20 ancient ivory artifacts looted from Afghanistan's national museum were introduced to the country's president, Hamid Karzai, in London Tuesday. The 2,000-year-old artifacts are the latest additions to the internationally commended exhibition "Afghanistan: Crossroads...
Arabic Henna Designs
Posted by: aziarif
Āqčah :: Afghanistan | updated 2012-11-02 18:38:31 -0700 | arts-culture-news
There are many types of mehndi designs. But one of the most popular mehndi designs is Arabic Mehndi Design. This relates to Arabic countries. Arabic mehndi is famous due to its simple ness. This contains very simple but beautiful and...
Simple Henna Designs
Posted by: aziarif
Andẖvoy :: Afghanistan | updated 2011-08-19 04:23:43 -0700 | arts-culture-news
Ladies for whom it is hard and difficult to make complicated and sketchy designs on their hands and feet with mehndi, companies have publish many easy mehndi designs which are easy and also very much beautiful and attractive. Simplicity is...
Disfigured Afghan woman’s image on TIME cover wins World Press Photo of the Year 2010
Posted by: Sanskrity Sinha
Kabul :: Afghanistan | updated 2012-02-29 22:51:05 -0800 | arts-culture-news
Bibi Aisha, an 18-year-old abused Afghan woman was punished brutally for fleeing her husband’s house – her ears and nose were cut off. The rescue by American soldiers took her to the cover of the Aug. 9 issue of TIME...
UN Secretary General welcome inauguration of new Afghan Parliament
Posted by: riasatkhan
Kabul :: Afghanistan | updated 2012-03-09 08:51:00 -0800 | arts-culture-news
The UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon has welcomed the inauguration of new Afghan parliament. In a statement in New York, he said that this is the beginning of a new period in Afghan history. The British government has also...
SUBJECT OF HERITAGE CONSERVATION NOT FULLY EXPLORED YET IN PAKISTAN : EXPERTS
Posted by: amjadiqbal
Kabul :: Afghanistan | updated 2011-04-01 13:07:14 -0700 | arts-culture-news
The International workshop on conserving cultural heritage of Sindh concluded SUBJECT OF HERITAGE CONSERVATION NOT FULLY EXPLORED YET IN PAKISTAN : EXPERTS BY AMJAD IQBAL IN ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN The second and last day of the international workshop on conserving cultural...
2600 year old Buddhist Temple Discovered by the Chinese mining company in Afghanistan
Posted by: Vishal Banker
Kabul :: Afghanistan | updated 2012-03-04 22:26:00 -0800 | arts-culture-news
A Chinese company digging a copper mine in Afghanistan has untapped Buddhist monastery unearthed a 2,600 year expanding, according to a Daily Mail report The archaeologists are racing to salvage what they can of the principal of the seventh century...
In Pictures: Chinese Company Unearths Ancient Statues of Buddha
Posted by: ken_nic2009
Kabul :: Afghanistan | updated 2012-04-19 03:55:10 -0700 | arts-culture-news
China Metallurgical Group Corp, a Chinese company, has discovered ancient statues of Buddha as its miners were digging an unexploited copper mine in Afghanistan. The ruins were uncovered as laborers excavated the site to develop the world's second largest copper...
Mining Company unearths 2,600-year-old Buddhist Monastery
Posted by: marivicmalinao
Kabul :: Afghanistan | updated 2012-03-07 09:38:10 -0800 | arts-culture-news
A Chinese government-backed China Metallurgical Group Corp. (MCC) unearthed ancient statues of Buddha in a rambling 2,600-year-old Buddhist monastery in its excavation to develop the world’s second largest copper exploit. It was a 7th century BC religious site along the...
Kabul : More than 150 statues of Budha found from Afghanistan
Posted by: lalag
Kabul :: Afghanistan | updated 2012-11-02 04:49:30 -0700 | arts-culture-news
Kabul : More than 150 statues of Gautam Budh (Budhah) found from Afghanistan. According to detail More than 150 statues of Gautam Budh 2600 years old found from Afghanistan during ditch. Some of them are 10 ft high. These being...
Buddha ruins discovered in Afghanistan
Posted by: Shinkansen
Kabul :: Afghanistan | updated 2012-11-02 04:39:25 -0700 | odd-news
Recently , archaelogist have discovered Buddha ruins in Kabul-Afghanistan. Archaelogist says that these ruins are in good condition. Buddha ruins found 12 km far from Kabul and some of them are expected to be caves age ruins. Many of the...
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