Word: gholghola
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...ruins of Shahr-i-Gholghola?variously known as the City of Silence, the City of Noise or the Cursed City?tower above the Bamiyan plains of central Afghanistan, a single watchtower left of what, until its destruction in 1222, was a flourishing city on the Silk Route between Europe and China. Antitank mines left by a Soviet garrison in the 1980s deter visitors from exploring the caves and tunnels where the Taliban sheltered from coalition bombing last fall. On the other side of the plateau are sandstone cliffs honeycombed with caves and the empty niches that held the two giant...
...Buddhas were the work of Pakistanis and Arabs, the foreign jihadis, says one prisoner, Nisar Ahmad. "It was a very,very bad idea," he says. "We are very sad." The war may be over, but the destruction wrought by the Taliban, like Khan's razing of Shahr-i-Gholghola, seems destined to live in the Hazara's memories for centuries to come...
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