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KABUL - As a part of UNAMA's campaign to spread awareness about Afghanistan's rich past, Aditya Mehta spoke to UNESCO Director Shigeru Aoyagi about the agency's concerns and plans for the future.
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 festival of their Muslim neighbours.
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 describing the way eastwards as “The Golden Road.”
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.
HERAT - Experts cannot state with precision when the old city of Herat was built as it stands today.
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 Bronze and Iron Ages where civilizations from Kandahar to Balkh began t
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.
KABUL - The outgoing top United Nations envoy for Afghanistan today stressed the need to reverse the negative trends in the country within the year or they will inevitably become “irreversible.”
KABUL - The Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General for Afghanistan, Kai Eide, has held his final press conference in Kabul.
KABUL - Success in Afghanistan hinges on a better understanding of Afghan society by the world and the assumption of greater responsibility by its authorities, the outgoing United Nations envoy there said today.