Take, for example, the province of Bamiyan, a mountainous region in the center of the country.
Bamiyan and the Buddhas remain firmly under the control of the forces of Hezb-i-Whadat.
The Old Mostar Bridge, the giant Buddhas of Bamiyan, and now the Mausoleums of Timbuktu.
The scientist said the work would require a small factory to be built in the Bamiyan Valley.
CNN: Will one of two destroyed Buddha statues be reconstructed?
In April, opposition forces managed to take Bamiyan, in central Afghanistan, cutting off the Taliban's supply route to the north-west.
We all remember the destruction of the Buddhas of Bamiyan in Afghanistan.
For 1, 500 years, the sandstone cliffs of afghanistan's Bamiyan valley encased two towering Buddhas peering sleepily from their caves onto patches of magnolia trees.
In central Bamiyan province, where predominantly ethnic Hazaras suffered under Taliban rule, thousands of voters cast their ballots behind cardboard screens inside dust-caked tents.
UNESCO, which is nearing the completion of an effort to preserve the Buddha niches in Bamiyan and wall paintings, does not favor rebuilding the figures.
CNN: Will one of two destroyed Buddha statues be reconstructed?
Exploitation of the estimated two billion tonnes of iron ore deposits in Hajigak mine - located in Bamiyan - is expected to begin by 2015.
Today, it is a nine-hour drive from Kabul to Bamiyan --- and the ride is one over broken roads that passes through some dangerous provinces.
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"This is one of our desires ... that we at least will have something for the tourism attraction, the tourism destination here in Bamiyan, " he says.
We took an excursion to see ancient Buddhist monks' caves with their elaborate meditation paintings and tall Buddha statues in Bamiyan (since destroyed by the Taliban).
Professor Tarzi worked on projects to restore the other Bamiyan Buddhas in the late 1970s and has spent most of his career researching the existence of the missing giant.
Hamasa Zaki, a plucky 19-year-old, started out in the call center but within two years has worked her way up to handling 30 accounts across Heraat, Bamiyan and Kabul.
The prospect of mineral extraction in the Bamiyan Valley, both the challenges and opportunities it could provide, were also discussed in the context of sustainable development.
The Alliance said Taleban commanders south of Pul-e-Khumri had defected, weakening the garrison in the town of Bamiyan - the Taleban's main base in the central highlands.
It takes just a half-hour to fly to Bamiyan's provincial capital from Kabul, but to drive you bounce for at least eight hours on a bone-jarring dirt track.
During the meeting, UNESCO also announcedthe beginning of Phase IV of its Project for the Safeguarding of the Bamiyan Site, funded by the government of Japan since 2003.
Abdul Rehman Shahid, a member of parliament from Bamiyan Province, couldn't confirm whether children worked in those mines, but added that the government recently enforced a ban on transporting coal there.
During the two-day meeting, a holistic discussion took place around the management plan for the World Heritage Property, the Cultural Master Plan for Bamiyan, urban planning and transport issues, including roads and aviation.
Mes Aynak is a sprawling, mountainous, 9, 800-acre site studded with artifacts that archaeologists believe are as significant as the Bamiyan Buddhas, as well as the remains of civilizations that stretch back to the time of Alexander the Great.
This important project will be jointly implemented by the UNESCO Kabul Office and different departments of the Ministry of Information and Culture throughout the country, with an operational focus on the conservation of the Islamic Citadel of Shar-i-Gholgholah at the World Heritage Site of Bamiyan.
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