BamyanProvince (Persian: بامیان) is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan.
Bamyan city is the largest city in the Hazarajat region of Afghanistan, and is the cultural capital of the Hazara ethnic group that predominates in the area.
Asked to list her priorities for the province, Sarobi said: "Roads, roads and roads." She compared the province's situation with the millions being spent on road building in the south and wonders why nothing reaches her area.
Pointing out that millions of dollars are being spent on provinces in the south, Fuladi also compares the lack of aid in his area to the aid pouring into the much smaller province of Panjshir, an area that many believe was made into a separate province for political rather than administrative reasons.
Sarobi admits that this is a widespread feeling among people in her province and an issue she plans to raise at the next meeting of the international coordination committee on Bamiyan.
Bamyan is a town in central Afghanistan, the capital of BamyanProvince.
It is distinctive and famous for its ancient portion of the city, where the Buddhas of Bamyan stood for almost two millenia.
For decades Bamyan city has been the center of fighting between zealot Muslims Taliban forces and the anti-Taliban alliance mainly Hiz-i-Wahdat, preceded by the clashes between the warlords of the local militia.
Bamyan has not been merely recognized because of its Buddhist civilization in the world, but the characteristics of many other ancient civilizations are also found there.
In that period Bamyan was selected due to its geographical importance and best geological characteristics, and the work of carving of statues and caves was started.
Bamyan known a capital city of Hazarajat and having known as a heritage of Hazaras, Taliban representative of fanatic Pushtun historic and racial enemy of Hazaras are trying to destroy this human heritage on the basis of racial and religious prejudices.
The two-storey school is one of the largest in Bamyanprovince.
Bamyan provincial Governor Habibi Sarabi said the school was yet another example of the great work done by the NZ PRT in the province.
Since assuming responsibility for the Bamyanprovincial reconstruction team in September 2003, New Zealand troops have facilitated the construction of five police stations, a maternity ward at Bamyan Hospital and a number of new bridges.
At the site, hundreds of meters north of Bamyan city, capital of the province, some Afghan workers with yellow safety helmets were clearing and collecting the two statues' pieces with shovels and handcarts on Sunday.
The about 150-km journey from Kabul, capital of the country, to Bamyan city, costs more than seven hours by vehicle as the road, most of which is of earth and cobble, is bumpy and in a bad shape.
Bamyanprovince stood on the ancient Silk Road, which linked Europe to East Asia.
USATODAY.com - Women embrace new freedom in Bamiyan(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Perhaps more than anywhere else in Afghanistan, women in Bamiyan province are leaping into the political space created by the U.S.-led overthrow of the Islamic fundamentalist Taliban militia four years ago.
Sixteen women will be on ballots in Bamiyan province Sunday, when voters choose candidates for the provincial council and the lower house of the Afghan National Assembly, known as the Wolesi Jirga.
In the western city of Herat and the northern provinceBadakhshan, three young female candidates are attracting ardent admirers, according to the Daily Outlook Afghanistan, an English-language newspaper.
Bamyan is one remote province targeted by the campaign.
The people of Bamyan have limited access to health care, and the province’s child and maternal mortality rates are among the world’s highest.
UNICEF and its partners are supplying vaccines and training for health care workers to travel to remote regions such as Bamyan in the current campaign.
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June 28 statistics from the BamyanProvince in the central highlands reflect 169,774 men and 190,116 women, or 52.8 percent women, have registered to vote in the country's first national election scheduled for September.
The registrants represent approximately one-third of the available voters in Bamyan.
The Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) located near Bamyan, run by personnel from the New Zealand Defense Force, has supported voter registration efforts.
Peshawar - The hard-line Taliban fighters are reported to have dynamited a statue of an Eagle in Darra-I-Kiyan of Baghlanprovince in war ravaged Afghanistan on last Thursday.
The Taliban blasted the Eagle symbol with dynamites and bombs because in their opinion the making of statue of any living being falls under idolatry which is repugnant to the basic principles of Islam.
The General was later fled to Bamyanprovince where the Iran-backed Shia Hizb-e-Wahdat group is horn-locked with students militia fighters.
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USATODAY.com - Hunt for Taliban moves into Bamiyan province(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
In Bamiyan province this week, helicopters ferrying troops and supplies have been flying back and forth daily to an abandoned airport.
It is reported by local authorities that Taliban and al-Qaeda forces are trying to regroup in the province.
Some local officials say Omar might have been able to get to this area from Helmandprovince to the south, where he was reported to be last week, though the journey would have required an arduous trek through mountain passes and over several hundred miles.
Group Captain Duxfield said, “This maternity ward is an important addition to Bamyan which has the highest mortality rate in Afghanistan of both newborns and their mothers”.
We have made Bamyanprovince a focus of this work and with this project, and others such as the developing rural livelihoods and human rights projects based in the community, New Zealand is really making a difference.”
Lieutenant Millward said, “Current facilities at Bamyan were extremely limited in their capacity to support all aspects of pregnancy.
The Central Hospital in the central Afghan province of Bamyan is the only functioning hospital in the region and serves patients from five provinces - Maidan, Baghlan, Parwan, Uruzgan, and Bamyanprovince itself, Radio Free Afghanistan reported on 10 December.
Mohammad Fahim, the hospital's acting director and internal-medicine specialist, told the RFE/RL service that the hospital has just eight doctors, 12 nurses, and 44 beds and treats 150 patients daily.
On February 26, 2001, the Taleban leadership issued an edict ordering the destruction of two of the world’s tallest Buddha statues located in the Bamyanprovince of central Afghanistan.
Although the Taleban’s decision was condemned through out the world, the fundamentalist militia went ahead with the implementation of the edict.
Afghans everywhere are outraged by the Taliban decision to destroy the country's 2000-year-old Buddhist heritage, including the world tallest standing Buddhas in Bamyan, and urge strong action...
