Khaama Press: A top American film producer and screenwriter has started a new project about the life of Mawlana Jalaluddin Mohammad Balkhi, it has been reported. The screenwriter, David Franzoni, who wrote the 2000 blockbuster Gladiator has said his new project will be about the life and times of the 13th century Sufi poet Mawlana Jalaluddin Mohammad
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty May 30, 2016 Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has dedicated a reconstruction project to restore the ruins of the historic Darul Aman palace. Much of Kabul has been repaired since devastating civil wars, but the palace has been ignored atop a hill on the outskirts of the capital. “Today, we witness returning
Christies.com: On Monday 10 May, a fine Safavid tinned copper bowl (1501–1722), which had been looted from the National Museum of Afghanistan in Kabul, was presented to the Embassy of Afghanistan in London for return to the country. The bowl, dating to the early 17th century, was lost during the civil war in Afghanistan in the 1990s.
DNA India: The 1979 Soviet intervention in Afghanistan was a “tragic mistake”, Russia’s Ambassador to Pakistan Alexey Y Dedov has said, but claimed that its not similar to Russia’s support for the “legitimate regime” of Syrian President Bashar al Assad. Click here to read more (external link).
The Guardian (UK): Afghanistan usually celebrates its national heroes with pomp and fanfare. But Najibullah Popal is not remembered with the celebratory gunfire that welcomes home a victorious cricket team, or the presidential speeches bestowed on assassinated rebel leaders. His feat – preserving some of the country’s most valuable heritage from the ravages of war – was
Press TV April 28, 2016 In the early years of the last millennia, a titanic cosmic explosion was seen on the Earth for nearly three months in the form of a highly bright star, over 10 times as luminous as the Venus and visible even during daytime, though it was blazing about 7,200 light-years away from our
Counter Punch: Bombs explode in a subway. The victims are everyday people who happen to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. What follows is outrage: track down the perpetuators. The people who set off the bombs are monsters and inhuman fanatics, thunder the authorities. But the year is not 2016, it is 1883…
Xinhua: Afghan security forces have seized 24 pieces of antiques from smugglers and handed over to the Department of Information and Culture in Herat on Thursday. Click here to read more (external link).
Scroll.in: The region known in ancient times as Khorasan bequeathed a rich and diverse cultural heritage to human civilisation. Like all long-lived cultures, Khorasan’s geography expanded and constricted like a huge lung breathing art, beauty and elevated thought, spread across much of what today we call Iran, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Afghanistan. So huge was its
Mensxp: The roots of Hinduism are embedded in almost every part of the world and it is not surprising because Hinduism is one of the oldest religions on earth. The earliest temple structures discovered in Surkh Kotal, a place in Afghanistan, belonging to the imperial cult of King Kanishka, show that Hinduism thrived after the Vedic