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South Asian Magazine Nirvana Woman is available online free by nirvanalifestyle in Culture visit site

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72 votes

Afghanistan celebrates Independence Day by admin in Culture visit site

Afghanistan celebrated its Independence from British rule with a fireworks display that pleased the old but scared some children in the war-battered country. Planned festivities on Saturday included sports, entertainment and a parade by US and NATO trained Afghan forces amid the worst surge in violence since a US-led invasion ousted the hardline Taliban regime in late 2001 for hosting Osama bin Laden.

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Bamyan Buddha statues in central Afghanistan may be rebuilt by 2009 by admin in Culture visit site

Some workers are clearing and sorting out the pieces of the two best-known disrupted Bamyan Buddha statues in central Afghanistan's Bamyan province, and an official told Xinhua a possible project of rebuilding the statues may be wrapped up by the end of 2009 if everything goes smoothly. At the site, hundreds of meters north of Bamyan city, capital of the province, some Afghan workers with yellow safety helmets were clearing and collecting the two statues' pieces with shovels an...

62 votes

Afghans Pin Hopes on Resurrected Buddha, Afghans Hope a Resurrected Buddha Can Breathe New Life Into Their Impoverished World by admin in Culture visit site

Five years after the Taliban blew them up, Afghan laborers are picking up the pieces of two once-towering Buddha statues, hoping they will rise again and breathe new life into this dirt-poor province. While they wait for the Afghan government and international community to decide whether to rebuild them, a $1.3 million UNESCO-funded project is sorting out the chunks of clay and plaster _ ranging from boulders weighing several tons to fragments the size of tennis balls _ and shelt...