New Delhi, Nov. 5 -- The painting of the original Bamiyan Buddhas seen as a backdrop at the press conference of Taliban's (acting) Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi at the Afghan embassy in New Delhi had created great controversy. The painting was placed by the staff of the previous regime, the Republic of Afghanistan. However, it has once again brought back memories of the Taliban's destruction of the Bamiyan Buddhas, carved into the sandstone cliffs of the Bamiyan Valley, and a reminder of their extremist Islamist ideology. The Bamiyan Buddhas were known with the names 'Salsal' and 'Shahmama'. Salsal and Shahmama - the Eastern and Western Buddhas - were some of the tallest standing Budhhas in the world with height of 173 feet and 115 f...