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Wednesday, May 8, 2013
Kabul (BNA) In most countries of the world, the ordinary people think about Afghanistan in a manner that is a matter of mourning and concern for us.
Since long, the world people hear the name of Afghanistan alongside war, murdering, fleeing and refuging. Recently, officials’ corruption, production and trafficking of narcotics, mal-behaving with women, suicide and bad situation of children also are knotted with the name of Afghanistan which is published as the headlines of foreign media.
The reality is this that killing and injuring of about twenty foreign journalists and military men in Afghanistan has its own impact in defaming Afghanistan.
In decade of solar 40s that annually a great number of tourists were visiting our country, most of them returned to their countries with photos, eyewitnesses, documentary films and showing of handicrafts they brought with themselves.
This instigated the thousands other tourists who didn’t visited Afghanistan till date and wanted to visit from near this ancient land, its kind and cheerful people, the most valuable historical monuments, natural beautiful sciences, clean air and its flowers cleansed with water of rainfall.
Cheap food items and varieties of its fruits and finally harmlessness were interesting and fabulous to them. The five and six- member groups of young tourists not with weapons and bodyguards but with guitar, cameras and flout were spending days and nights in Shekary and Ashraf valleys, Band-i- Amir, Salang and Baba mountain valleys and passing their nights in muddy simple Samowars and hotels in remotest villages.
The local people including men and women welcoming them with salutation, smiling and shaking of their hands and also the people were welcoming their foreign guests with Afghan meals. But, with beginning of war, all things were changed. It was the time that visiting Afghanistan as a tourist meant suicide and falling down among the fire. In one word, an industry in the name of tourism chalked off from the culture of Afghanistan. In the course of war years, the world people sought only smoke, fire, violence, demolishing and other ugly phenomena beside the name of Afghanistan. In the very days of current solar year, when I (writer) along with a high- ranking delegation of ministry of information and culture while foreign minister and ambassador of Afghanistan in Australia, few journalists, employees of other institutions and a member of parliament were present in Melbourne the capital city of Victoria state of Australia, the exhibition of “Bakhtar Riches” when the high-ranking in-charges of museum of Victoria state were also present, was inaugurated. Proper replacement and decoration of historical relics of Afghanistan in this exhibition was taken place with a high tact. So, both deputy information and culture ministries of tourism and culture prof. Nabi Farahi and Mussadeq Khalili lauded the decoration of exhibition did by the in-charges of Victoria Museum Numerous brochures were printed in English language by Melbourne Museum on the same occasion.
Despite giving more information about the relics of this exhibition and history of Afghanistan, in majority of these brochures following patterns are also repeated. Afghanistan hidden rich by National Museum, Kabul. Exhibition of over 230 valuable relics that some of them are related to few thousand years back. This exhibition provided this possibility so the Australians to be acquainted with wonderful angels of history of Afghanistan, a country that has very high and rich culture. The exhibition of “Bakhtar Riches” is continuing in Melbourne as of March 22nd till July 28th of current year and to date, thousands people visited this exhibition. The ticked for visiting this exhibition is fixed for elderly people $24 and for children $14. In another brochure we read: Afghanistan was located at the heart of Silk Route, the way that passed by Gengiz Khan, Marco polo and Alexander the Great. This commercial route linked ancient Persia, central Asia, India and China with Greece and Rome.
My interesting memory from this exhibition is visiting of children and adolcents of Melbourne city from this exhibition. In different hours of the day, groups of 20 to 30 girl and boy students along with their few teachers were coming to exhibition to acquaint themselves with Bakhtar Riches of Afghanistan. One of the most precious relics in this exhibition was a golden crown. I saw hundreds boys and girls who made this crown from other things and laid down on their heads . I believe, in upcoming months, this exhibition be held in other cities of Australia such as Sedney, Berzin and Paret as well. This would have very positive impact in consideration and judgment of Australian people regarding Afghanistan and its people.
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