MINGORA, Pakistan, Oct. 24 --Archaeologists and cultural activists say Buddhist rock carvings in the Swat district of Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province are fading fast and urgently need a ...

Pakistan’s existing UNESCO-listed sites include the archaeological ruins of Mohenjo Daro and the historical monuments at Makli in Sindh; the Fort and Shalamar Gardens, Taxila, and Rohtas Fort in ...

Pakistan is uncovering a remarkable past: a once-thriving Buddhist civilization. Excavations reveal ancient universities and stupas, like Jaulian with its university ruins and Bhamala with the ...

Lacking the necessary cash and manpower, Pakistan is struggling to stem the flow of millions of dollars in ancient Buddhist artifacts that looters dig up in the country's northwest and smuggle t ...

There were effectively no restrictions on whisking Buddhist relics out of Pakistan's northwest in the first few decades after the country achieved independence from Britain in 1947, said Malik ...

Pakistan is an Islamic nation, where there is no Buddhist population. Buddhism was discouraged and Buddhists forcibly converted to Islam and.... ..

ISLAMABAD – Pakistani police seized a large number of ancient Buddhist sculptures that smugglers were attempting to spirit out of the country and sell for millions of dollars on the ...

ISLAMABAD: Government of Pakistan has worked out a plan to develop a Buddhist trail by exploring religious sites in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Punjab to attract the followers of Buddhism from across ...

He also said that a book on Raja Tridev Rao: Buddhism in Pakistan was published in 1955. This was why, he noted, from 1950 to 1969, Buddhism was part and parcel of academic discourse.

Archaeologists in Pakistan have unearthed an extremely rare hoard of copper coins, thought to be more than 2,000 years old, from the ruins of a Buddhist shrine built at the even more ancient site ...

The two-day international conference on Buddhism in Pakistan: History, Archaeology, Art and Architecture unveiled the potential of religious tourism in Pakistan in terms of promoting social ...