Swat Motorway or Gandhara Cultural Heritage Corridor: Prospects and Threats to Gandhara Cultural Heritage
By Dr.Sarfaraz Khan Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa is home to the world-wide famous Gandhara civilization. Several locations that are witnesses to this long-forgotten culture are Peshawar, Dir, Buner and Swat beside Taxila (in the Punjab) and Bamiyan and Hadda (in Afghanistan). Unfortunately, this heritage has been steadily disappearing because of man-made and environmental reasons. A recent threat in this regard is the construction of the long awaited mega-project of Swat Expressway, re-christened as Swat Motorway. The work has already started. It is rather interesting to note that the route selected by the executors of the mega-project follows the footsteps of old pilgrims...
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