by Chamari SENANAYAKE Sunday, November 21, 2010 The monastery found while digging for the copper mineIn 2001, Afghanistan’s ruling Taleban blew up two giant Buddha statues in defiance of international efforts to save them. United...
By TIFFANY CRAWFORD, Vancouver Sun November 19, 2010 Dr. Sima Samar is a human rights activist who has risked her life to help women in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Photograph by: ED KAISER, Postmedia News ____________________________________________________________________...
By Travis Lupick, November 18, 2010 Nine years after the overthrow of the Taliban, the women of Afghanistan continue to fight for basic human rights. Sima Samar, chair of the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission,...
By Warren P. Strobel | McClatchy Newspapers November 17, 2010 BAMIYAN, Afghanistan — They stand like missing hearts carved out of the mountain’s chest, abandoned chambers where ancient wonders of the world once gazed placidly....
By Daily Mail Reporter, 15th November 2010 Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1329650/Company-digging-Afghanistan-unearths-2-600-year-old-Buddhist-monastery.html#ixzz15OgNonLa A Chinese company digging an unexploited copper mine in Afghanistan has unearthed ancient statues of Buddha in a sprawling 2,600-year-old Buddhist monastery. Archaeologists are rushing...
By Shabtai Gold Berlin – Afghanistan’s top human rights expert has said openly that her country is not where she wants it to be nine years after the Taliban was overthrown, and promises the long...
Liaquat Ali Hazara, Nov 14, 2010 The collapse of the Taliban in 2001 persuaded the Afghan nationals to rejoice and celebrate as they wished to take the reign of the government in their hands. The...
By Kathy Gannon (CP) Afghanistan's ethnic minorities into taking their weapons out of mothballs and preparing for a fight.(AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti, File) PANJSHIR VALLEY, Afghanistan — President Hamid Karzai’s moves to make peace with the...
Photograph: Ahmad Masood/REUTERSDecember 22, 2001 is marked as the new beginning and new chapter in the history of Afghanistan as the former president of Afghanistan while handing over the power to Mr Hameed Karzai said:...
Carrie, 11 NOVEMBER 2010 Where the buddha's used to be in Bamiyan, northern AfghanistanI have just returned from a break at home with my family. I find being away from them one of the hardest...