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A SYMBOL OF HOPE IN A WAR-TORN NATION - 2003-11-22

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Saturday, 2003, November 22
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Babur was the first Moghul emperor and he built his first paradise garden in Kabul in the early 16th century. During the early 1990s it was on the frontline of the battle for control of the Afghan capital... 'The whole area was heavily mined. Many of the young boys who climbed over the old walls to collect the wood were killed,' says architect Jolyon Leslie of the Aga Khan Trust for Culture, which is leading the

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H.H. Prince Karim Aga Khan IV


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