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Source With Wesak Day just around the corner, history buff MARTIN VENGADESAN wants to share his amazing experience of exploring the site of an ancient Buddhist civilisation in a rather surprising location. OFFICIALLY, Pakistan is the “Islamic Republic of Pakistan”. It’s the world’s second most populous Muslim country, after Indonesia. It’s been associated with Islam… Continue reading Sharing a treasure with the world

Source JALALABAD, May 14 (Pajhwok Afghan News): At least 50 shops were burned to ashes as fire erupted in a market in Jalalabad, capital of the eastern Nangarhar province, on Sunday causing a loss of millions afghanis to the shopkeepers. The fire was caused by a power generator in a woodwork shop around noon. Soon… Continue reading 50 shops gutted in Nangarhar

Source KHOST CITY, Apr 19 (Pajhwok Afghan News): Armed men overnight stole cash and some valuables from a temple in the southern Khost province, local Hindu elder said on Wednesday. Luck Mir Sing, an elder of the Hindus village in Khost, told Pajhwok Afghan News that 30 gunmen stormed a temple. He said the culprits… Continue reading Temple looted in Khost

Source Ambassador Said T. Jawad Excerpts of speech on the preservation of Afghanistan’s archaeological, historical, and cultural heritage, given on April 17, 2006, at the Embassy of Afghanistan Afghanistan is a land bridge connecting Central Asia, the Indian subcontinent and the Middle East. The ancient Silk Route, which carried both goods and knowledge, and connected… Continue reading Saving Afghanistan’s cultural heritage

Source Taran Khan Thursday, March 23, 2006 22:25 IST KABUL: Sweating slightly in a room overheated for the Kabul spring, twenty-five-year-old Umesh Aryal dreams of chapattis. Light and piping hot, just like his mother in Thane makes them. “The first time I saw their naans, I got scared. They’re so huge!” he laughs. Umesh is… Continue reading When Afghans need to start something new, they get Indians

Source By Gurpreet Singh, SSNews Mar 4, 2006, 15:57 Meet Singh and his family, the first Sikh refugee family from Afghanistan succeed in getting Indian citizenship after a decade long wait. Today Meet Singh has an identity of his own and there is a place that he can call home. Meet Singh along with his… Continue reading Afghan Sikh gets Indian citizenship

Source LASHKARGAH, Feb 2 (Pajhwok Afghan News): Hundreds of people took to the streets in the southern Helmand province accusing the neighbouring Pakistan of interfering in Afghanistan. The protestors included tribal elders, members of the provincial council, religious scholars, government officials, representatives of Hindu and Sikh communities and large number of students. The participants accused… Continue reading Helmand residents stage demo against Kandahar blasts