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JALALABAD - It wasn’t just the Muslims of Jalalabad who celebrated the holy festival of Eid with pomp and jubilation in the last week of November 2009. In downtown Jalalabad, minority Hindu-Sikhs were also euphoric about the…

WINDSOR - One belief that the Western world often held about Asia and the East was that it was a land of enormous luxury and wealth. One Western poet from the 19th century, James Elroy Flecker, summed up this view by…

KABUL - As a part of the Mission’s campaign to raise awareness about Afghanistan’s rich past, Kabul Musuem Director Omara Khan Massoudi spoke to UNAMA on his desire to see the musuem rise from the ashes. Afghanistan has a…

HERAT - Experts cannot state with precision when the old city of Herat was built as it stands today. Herat’s history as a human settlement dates as far back as the Iron Age, and under Alexander the Great, during pre-Islamic…

KABUL - The history and archaeology of Afghanistan stretches back more than 40 millennia, from Palaeolithic sites where stone tools illustrate aspects of the lives of the first human settlements in Afghanistan, through to the…

13 March 2010 - Staffan de Mistura, the new chief of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA), has arrived in Kabul, assuring his support for efforts towards achieving stability and socioeconomic…

13 March 2010 - The recently-appointed Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General for Afghanistan, Staffan de Mistura, arrived in Kabul today to take up his post as top UN official in the country. UNAMA…

12 March 2010 - “Come first to me,” he called out from behind a stall in chaste English. His eyes intently winnowing genuine customers from holiday crowds, unknown to the hands that carefully lined some oversized combat…

12 March 2010 - In 1975, the International Women's Year, the United Nations began celebrating 8 March as International Women's Day. Every year during the month of March, thousands of events are held across the world to…

NEW YORK - A new project by the World Health Organization (WHO) aims to help Tajikistan's health system cope with the effects of natural disasters as well as the conflict in neighbouring Afghanistan.