48 posts tagged herat

The railway line under construction to provide a link between the Iranian network and Herat in Afghanistan is progressing, according to Hamid Behbahani, Iran’s Deputy Minister of Roads & Transportation, in a report by the Fars news agency: Railroad to Link Pakistan to Europe via Iran 15:14 |

Remember Josef Fritzl desperate attempt last week to defend the indefensible by claiming he did not touch his daughter until she was 18 ie an adult, well it turns out that the Incest Monster is continuing his deeply entrenched pattern of lying.

Yeah, I know, I was the last one to post about it.  Whatever.  I shook hands with Christiane Amanpour.  I bet she totally wants to do me now. And, in honor of me being the last one to announce it, here’s Ambinder being the first in very dramatic fashion: I don’t know if John Edwards is endorsing Barack Obama today.

The online dating community is pretty impressively populated. I was on the net late last night checking out a few online dating sites, and I realized that a lot of the sites have a large number of mem... Source: http://www.goarticles.com/cgi-bin/showa.cgi?C=910987

Padmasambhava is considered to be the first Tantrik Buddhist guru in Tibet and of Tantrik Buddhism though according to learned Tantrikas, Buddha himself was a great Tantrik teacher. Buddha’s earth touching gesture is regarded as a Tantrik gesture since according to Hindu Tantras an Avadhuta before

Wahid is one of the terps who works with me here in Herat. He’s a pretty laid back guy. We’ve developed a pretty good friendship over the course of the past year. I didn’t always think that such would be the case. So it’s kind of funny to be making that statement. He moonlights at night in Herat as an English teacher.

Architectural historian and broadcaster Dan Cruickshank treks into the mountains of western Afghanistan to visit and film an architectural treasure, the leaning minaret of Jam. Herat is a wonderful city. It was rebuilt by Alexander the Great around 330 BC, and was later one of the major cities in Tamerlane's empire.

Herat's ancient buildings have been damaged in many military conflicts We had come not to enjoy its glories, but to get our permission to travel validated by local officials. First we went to see the Deputy Governor of Herat. Haji Mir Abdul Khaliq was a mujahideen in the 1980s and - robed, turbaned and bearded - looked a formidable character.

When I was a kid, I collected stamps. So when I came across this little gem, I had to pick it up. These stamps are from the time before the Soviet invasion. The time of King Zahir Shah. The last King of Afghanistan. They’re a link to a time when Afghanistan was at peace with itself.

Jalal al Din Rumi Ghazal 1506 Poetic Translation believe me i wasn’t always like this lacking common sense or looking insane like you i used to be clever in my days never like this totally enraptured totally gone like sharp shooters i used to be a hunter of hearts not like today with