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An application by the Taliban to add a historic garden in Kabul to the World Heritage List lies in limbo.
Tom Anstey | Planet Attractions | 19 Jan 2023
An application by the Taliban to add a historic garden in Kabul to the World Heritage List lies in limbo.
In January 2022, the authorities in Afghanistan submitted a nomination dossier to Unesco to list Bagh-e Babur (Babur’s Garden) as one of its properties. However, the United Nations (UN) agency is yet to formally acknowledge the receipt of the application, the first step in what is generally a two-year review process.
“Unesco, contrary to its own procedures related to listing important cultural and historic sites from its member states, which Afghanistan has been a member of since around 1948… has unfortunately begun playing a political game in Bagh-e Babur’s case,” Atiqullah Azizi, Afghanistan’s deputy minister of culture and art, tells...
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