{"id":46970,"date":"2022-08-02T13:00:41","date_gmt":"2022-08-02T04:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/02\/fears-over-building-works-at-afghan-buddhas-of-bamiyan-site"},"modified":"2022-08-02T13:00:41","modified_gmt":"2022-08-02T04:00:41","slug":"fears-over-building-works-at-afghan-buddhas-of-bamiyan-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=46970","title":{"rendered":"Fears over building works at Afghan Buddhas of Bamiyan site"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Unesco says it has not been consulted on project and local experts are alarmed at Taliban plans<\/p>\n<p>The Taliban have launched construction work on a tourism complex just metres from the cliff that held the Bamiyan Buddha statues, which archeologists and experts warn could cause permanent damage to the sensitive world heritage site.<\/p>\n<p>The project aims to \u201crebuild\u201d a historic bazaar, which was destroyed in the civil war of the 1990s. Under the Taliban blueprint, the area will become a tourism centre with restaurants, guesthouses, parking, public toilets and handicraft and grocery shops.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/02\/fears-over-building-works-at-afghan-buddhas-of-bamiyan-site\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unesco says it has not been consulted on project and local experts are alarmed at Taliban plansThe Taliban have launched construction work on a tourism complex just metres from the cliff that held the Bamiyan Buddha statues, which archeologists and exp&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3218,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46,1449,61,44,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-archaeology","category-south-and-central-asia","category-taliban","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3218"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46970"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46971,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46970\/revisions\/46971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}