Site proudly built by Amazee Labs. The writer travelled to Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region as a part of a delegation of international journalists from 20 countries hosted by the State Council Information Office of the People’s Republic of China, Printable version | Sep 25, 2020 9:28:28 PM | https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/at-the-heart-of-the-silk-road/article24233947.ece. Behzad, still considered Iran’s most accomplished painter of miniatures, was a native of Herat and did much of his finest work there. Silk Road Mayors Forum will help Kabul re-connect with investors from cities on the Silk Road to discuss issues of mutual interest The Afghan cities of Kabul, Balkh, Herat, Kandahar, and Bamyan The Old City of Herat contains a spectacular collection of medieval Islamic buildings. 66, local officials attempt to explain what they call a “crackdown” on the “anti-human, anti-society” spread of extremism in Xinjiang. Gowhar Shad Begum (“Happy Pearl”), a Mongol princess and a strong personality in her own right, is one of just a handful of women to leave an impress on Islamic history; the chroniclers called her the Bilkis ( Queen of Sheba) of her age. HERAT, Afghanistan (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Once an important Silk Road trading hub, the Afghan city of Herat has long been a cultural centre, … 66 school in the region’s capital, Ürümqi. To facilitate the restoration efforts, former President Hamid Karzai had asked Germany, France, Italy and India, through UNESCO, to help prevent the minarets’ destruction. A pious and scholarly man who preferred the rewards of peace to wider conquests, he seems to have been a capable leader, and became supreme ruler upon Tamerlane’s death (in 1405 AD), and held the vast empire together for the next fifty years with Herat (rather than Samarkand) as its capital. Ellsworth Kelly Foundation generously supported the development of this site. However, even if officials succeed in restoring the worst-affected minaret, Rawoufyan said Afghanistan might not be able to meet UNESCO’s criteria for the World Heritage List as “several boxes” remain. Gowhar Shad, the wife of Shah Rukh, sponsored her own magnificent mausoleum in Herat as well as the adjoining Musalla, a complex of mosque and seminary of which only a few minarets remain. In a recent survey, Human Rights Watch stated that apart from what is taught at schools, as many as 800,000 Uighurs have been taken forcibly to “reeducation” camps where they are questioned about possibly extremist thoughts and indoctrinated on the perils of the “three evils” of “ethnic separatism, religious extremism, and violent terrorism”. The network of irrigation canals was destroyed, the whole region devastated, and desolation reigned for decades along the Hari Rud. To enable wide dissemination of news that is in public interest, we have increased the number of articles that can be read free, and extended free trial periods. However, north of the Oxus, the Uzbeks were on the rise; already Samarkand had fallen to them, and a year after Sultan Husayn’s death in 1506, they invaded and conquered Herat. Above, cheerful red banners in Mandarin proclaim the importance of nation over faith and family. Additional funding has been provided by the Yanqi County, not far from Korla, hosts early a dozen vineyards that hoping to repeat Marco Polo’s wine exports along the new Silk Road. By the standards of any of the countries bordering Xinjiang, including Afghanistan, Pakistan and even India, Xinjiang has seen a small number of attacks.