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News Afghanistan » Balkh » Culture: Afghanistan: A Treasure Trove for Archaeologists

News channel or source: https://time.com/archive/6687779/afghanistan-a-treasure-trove-for-archaeologists/

Published on: Wednesday 25 February 2009

A newly discovered site at Tepe Zargaran, an ancient jewelers' hub near the city of BalkhPhotograph for TIME by Adam Ferguson Roland Besenval is a magician. With a few words and expansive hand ...

News Afghanistan » Balkh » Culture: Afghanistan: Balkh Still Uneasy Over Language

News channel or source: https://globalvoices.org/2008/02/20/afghanistan-balkh-still-uneasy-over-language/

Published on: Tuesday 19 February 2008

Mohammad reports that university teachers, students, cultural activists, writers, poets, journalists and youths dramatic held a protest rally against the information minister in Balkh, a city in ...

News Afghanistan » Balkh » Culture: Bomb Blast in Northern Afghanistan Kills 1, Wounds 5 Journalists

News channel or source: https://www.voanews.com/a/aghan-blast-kills-1-wounds-5/7000280.html

Published on: Friday 10 March 2023

A bomb blast tore through a Shiite cultural center in Afghanistan's northern Balkh province Saturday, killing a security guard and wounding at least eight people. A local police spokesman, Mohammad ...

News Afghanistan » Balkh » Culture: Islamic State Claims Responsibility For Afghanistan Blast

News channel or source: https://www.rferl.org/a/afghanistan-balkh-blast-islamic-state-responsibility/32314309.html

Published on: Sunday 12 March 2023

Islamic State has claimed responsibility for a March 11 attack in Afghanistan's Balkh Province, the extremist group's Telegram account said on March 12. The blast at a cultural center during an event ...

News Afghanistan » Balkh » Culture: Afghanistan: Ministry of Information and Culture urged to respect media freedom in the use of official languages

News channel or source: https://ifex.org/afghanistan-ministry-of-information-and-culture-urged-to-respect-media-freedom-in-the-use-of-official-languages/

Published on: Saturday 27 January 2024

The Afghanistan Journalists Center said that the media should be free to use the national and official languages or the native languages of the country. This statement was originally published on afjc ...

News Afghanistan » Balkh » Culture: Picking Up The Pieces

News channel or source: https://www.rferl.org/a/afghanistan-taliban-cultural-heritage-threats/32328113.html

Published on: Tuesday 21 March 2023

The recent past has not been kind to Afghanistan's pre-Islamic heritage. Will history repeat itself under the new Taliban government? Just months before the Taliban was ousted from power in 2001, the ...

News Afghanistan » Balkh » Culture: UNESCO Director General and Chief Executive Dr Abdullah Abdullah celebrate the role of Cultural heritage for the future of Afghanistan

News channel or source: https://whc.unesco.org/en/news/1501/

Published on: Thursday 26 May 2016

UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova, Chief Executive of Afghanistan, Dr. Abdullah Abdullah, and the Director of the Afghanistan Center at Kabul University, Nancy Dupree. “Keeping History Alive” a ...

News Afghanistan » Balkh » Culture: Afghanistan: Ban on publishing images of living beings expands to Balkh province, increasing total affected provinces to 21

News channel or source: https://ifex.org/afghanistan-ban-on-publishing-images-of-living-beings-expands-to-balkh-province-increasing-total-affected-provinces-to-21/

Published on: Monday 15 September 2025

The enactment of the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice law in August 2024 has undermined the work of media. This statement was originally published on afjc.media on 12 September 2025. The de ...

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