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The relics of
Buddha’s life
Gandhara was the first civilisation to have spawned Buddhist art and
culture. The police caught around 300 pieces of artefacts worth billions,
which were recovered from a truck and a warehouse in Ibrahim Hyderi, last
week. Inspections have revealed
that the artefacts were dug out from southern Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa,
in a bid to smuggle and sell them in the international market.
photofeature
The relics of Buddha’s life
Gandhara was the first
civilisation to have spawned Buddhist art and culture. The police caught
around 300 pieces of artefacts  worth
billions, which were recovered from a truck and a warehouse in Ibrahim Hyderi,
last week. Inspections have
revealed
that the artefacts were dug out from southern Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa,
in a bid to smuggle and sell them in the international market.
Mohammad Shah
Bukhari, head of the National Museum of Pakistan, informed Kolachi that most
of the relics depict the life of Buddha meditating and carrying out his
missionary activities. While the investigation in the smuggling case is under
way, Kolachi carries
a photo-feature of 2,000-year-old relics from the Gandhara civilisation,
whose real value is still unknown to many.
Text by
Saher Baloch
The News photos by
Naqeeb ur Rehman
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