HERAT CITY (Pajhwok): The governor on Thursday said intelligence officials had prevented seven historic artifacts from being smuggled out of western Herat province.
Mohammad Asif Rahimi told a news conference here the relicts recued were 700 to 1,000 years old and related to Timurid, Bactria and Ghori eras.
The monuments prevented from smuggling included a golden cup, a bronze tankard, a bronze bowl, a mud made jug, a bronze cooking pot, a cupper jug and the cap of a sugar bowl, he said.
The governor said the smugglers wanted to export the . . .
