Bamiyan Province

                   
metro.co.uk: Buddha Collapsed Out Of Shame metro.co.uk

Buddha Collapsed Out Of Shame offers a harrowing tale

metro.co.uk
18-Nov-2008
        

by ZENA ALKAYAT - Monday, November 17, 2008 Buddha Collapsed Out Of Shame It's been more than ten years since the Taliban began to change the shape of Afghanistan – and the regime's legacy is now frighteningly apparent. Iranian...

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Singapore recalls statement on Afghan medical deployment - Summary

earthtimes.org
17-Nov-2008 4 related
        

Singapore - The Singapore government Monday recalled a statement made earlier in the day saying the Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) had sent a 20-man medical team to Afghanistan as the city state's contribution to the...

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Miami photographer-adventurer recalls a peaceful Afghanistan

miamiherald.com
17-Nov-2008
        

Joseph Hoyt was a 22-year-old backpacker on the Grecian islands when he first heard of the mountainous peaks and sweltering deserts of Afghanistan. Fresh out of college and armed with savings from a year as a medical orderly,...

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Art brings hope, sadness to Kabul

bigblog.com
15-Nov-2008
        

The Tribune's Kim Barker finds an exhibit in the often-dreary Afghan capital that offers entertainment for all By Kim Barker Tribune correspondent KABUL, Afghanistan — The old men in their turbans had seen everything in...

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Karzai Caught Between Foreign Donors, Afghan Voters On Death Penalty

payvand.com
14-Nov-2008 45 related
        

By Ron Synovitz, RFE/RL Afghan President Hamid Karzai has signed nine execution orders that have been carried out at Afghan prisons during the past week. Deterrent Conventional wisdom in Afghanistan has it that public...

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Outside View: Talk to the Taliban? Not now

spacewar.com
13-Nov-2008 1 related
        

Washington (UPI) Nov 11, 2008 - As new U.S. Central Command chief Gen. David Petraeus got a firsthand look at the worsening security situation in Afghanistan last week, he heard from some U.S., British and Afghan officials that...

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UN Mission opens its 18th office in Afghanistan

hindu.com
11-Nov-2008 1 related
        

New York (PTI): The UN mission in the war-ravaged Afghanistan has opened its new office in Pul-i-Khumri, the capital of the country's northern Baghlan province, bringing the total number of its field offices to 18 in the...

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Twenty-one police officers awarded for peacekeeping efforts

channelnewsasia.com
10-Nov-2008 2 related
        

By Satish Cheney, Channel NewsAsia | Posted: 10 November 2008 1452 hrs SINGAPORE: Twenty-one Singapore police officers have been recognised on Monday for their efforts in helping to beef up the local police force in Timor Leste...

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59 SAF servicemen honoured

singaporenews.net
10-Nov-2008
        

Minister for Defence Teo Chee Hean presented the Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) Overseas Service Medal (OSM) to 59 servicemen this evening. The OSM is awarded to servicemen in recognition of their valua...

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yahoo.com: New Bamiyan Buddha find amid destruction yahoo.com

Bamiyan ‘Sleeping Buddha’ statue excavated

asianage.com
09-Nov-2008 4 related
        

Bamiyan (Afghanistan), Nov. 9: "We got him!" screamed Afghan archaeologist Anwar Khan Fayez as he leapt from the pit beneath the towering sandstone cliffs, where the Bamiyan Buddhas once stood. Seven years after Taliban...

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