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World Including Pakistan Celebrating ‘Heritage Day’

ISLAMABAD: Countries around the globe including Pakistan are celebrating International Heritage Day to raise awareness about monuments and sites.

The aim of the International Day for Monuments and Sites is to encourage local communities and individuals throughout the world to consider the importance of cultural heritage to their lives, identities and communities, and to promote awareness of its diversity and vulnerability and the efforts required to protect and conserve it. Every year on 18 April, International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS) celebrates the “International Day for Monuments and Sites”, whose establishment was approved by the 22nd UNESCO General Conference in 1983.

UNESCO has designated six sites in Pakistan as World Heritage sites including Ruins of Mohenjo-Daro, Buddhist ruins of Takht-i-Bahi and Sahr-i-Bahlol, Lahore Fort and Shalamar Gardens, Historical Monuments of Makli and Thatta, Rohtas Fort and Taxila. The government of Pakistan should bring together scholars, heritage conservators and students to highlight the situation of Pakistan’s valuable rural heritage and its role in national development.