The Lost City; Today it is a place of ruins and ghosts - but once it was a glittering metropolis of palaces and pleasure grounds. Are we civilised enough to give Kabul a future?(Features) From: The Independent (London, England) | Date: October 12, 2001| Author: Hensher, Philip | COPYRIGHT 2001 Independent Newspapers (UK) Ltd. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

On the Emperor Babur's tomb, near Kabul, there once stood an inscription: "Drink wine in the citadel of Kabul, and send round the cup without stopping: for it is at once a mountain, a sea, a town, a desert." Babur loved Kabul, and said that "its verdure and flowers render it, in spring, a heaven". When Alexander Burnes visited Kabul in the 1830s, Babur's tomb was one of the places he loved best. "There is a noble prospect from the hill which overlooks Babur's tomb, and a summer hou...

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