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...What does the title mean? A: "Beloved Kabul...
...Snaking along a dusty highway near Tangi Abrishum, headed west from Jalalabad to the Afghan capital of Kabul last Monday, a convoy of cars and taxis filled with journalists and interpreters was halted at a bridge by bearded guards bearing Kalashnikovs. A few vehicles managed to speed away but two were trapped. The armed men, probably Taliban but possibly bandits, forced four journalists out?sparing their drivers. The four, HARRY BURTON, 33, and AZIZULLAH HAIDARI, 33, both with Reuters; MARIA GRAZIA CUTULI, 39, of the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera; and JULIO FUENTES, 46, of the Spanish daily El Mundo...
...March this year, Muslim extremists, for ideas of their own about idolatry, used dynamite to "kill" the giant Buddhas in Bamiyan, in the high peaks west of the Afghan capital Kabul. While blowing up the statues - one of them near 55m tall - could not touch the tenets of Buddhism, the destruction of part of the world's cultural heritage caused widespread outrage. It highlighted the contrary nature of the "nation" of Afghanistan, a place forever falling apart under the weight of war, but which over millennia has also produced wondrous works...
Many other arms stretched the same way: Indian, Persian, Arab, Mongol, Turkish, Chinese. There were also lesser-known tribal groups, like the Kushans, a Central Asian nomadic lot who around the start of the Christian era controlled northern India, Afghanistan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan, using the Kabul region as a summer vacation spot. For all their power, the Kushans handled cultural and religious diversity better than those who have ruled Afghanistan in recent decades. Cambon says they showed "an extreme tolerance and true eclecticism if we bear in mind the diverse origins of the divinities that appear on the reverse...
Although the Taliban have robbed the world of the giant Buddhas and sacked the national museum in Kabul, many works of art that flowed from the cultural confluences in Afghanistan over thousands of years have been saved by traffickers selling them to outsiders, or by foreign archaeological expeditions. One of the most important of the latter was the Délégation Archéologique Française en Afghanistan, which was invited there in 1922 by the then King and which excavated near Kabul what has become known as the treasure of Begram. Among its finds...