Months before the September 11 terror attacks, the Taliban in Afghanistan made headlines with the mass destruction of a pair of 1500 year-old giant Buddha statues that lay along the ancient "Silk Road" in the...
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"Suspected pro-Taleban militants have tried to blow up an ancient carving of Buddha in north-west Pakistan.
The statue, thought to date from the second century BC, sustained only minimal damage in the attack near Manglore in remote Swat district.
The area has seen a rise in...
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