{"id":80293,"date":"2021-10-05T16:27:31","date_gmt":"2021-10-05T11:27:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/?p=80293"},"modified":"2021-10-05T16:27:35","modified_gmt":"2021-10-05T11:27:35","slug":"gandhara-festival-taxila-museum-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/gandhara-festival-taxila-museum-today.html","title":{"rendered":"Five-day Gandhara festival at Taxila Museum starts today"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Islamabad: The Center for Culture and Development (CCD) has organised a five-day Gandhara Festival that will commence from today (October 5) at Taxila Museum featuring storytelling sessions, panel discussion, and exhibitions, according to news published on Tuesday (October 5).\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/update-mega-development-projects.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">CM Khan receives progress update on Peshawar\u2019s mega development projects<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As per the details, the festival will be open to the public from October 6 to 9. CCD Director Izzah Khan stated that the festival aims to promote cultural pluralism, highlight the respect for cultural diversity and heritage, and integrate intangible and tangible cultural heritage of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/peshawars-gandhara-valley-city.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Gandhara<\/a> Civilisation through panel discussions, showcasing of local crafts, exhibition, and site visits.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/uplift-projects-pkr-11-bn-completed-taxila.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Uplift projects worth PKR 11 bn to be completed in Taxila district<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She further added that CCD hopes to attract a diverse audience from educational institutions, diplomatic missions, researchers, artists, scholars, government departments, and the local community. It was also mentioned that the festival focuses on exploring the Gandhara Civilisation  in Buddhist and Jain history in Pakistan. Moreover, CCD Director Khan stated that youth should be informed about the culture and heritage so they can feel connected to their roots.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad: The Center for Culture and Development (CCD) has organised a five-day Gandhara Festival that will commence from today (October 5) at Taxila Museum featuring storytelling sessions, panel discussion, and exhibitions, according to news published on Tuesday (October 5).\u00a0 Read: CM Khan receives progress update on Peshawar\u2019s mega development projects As per the details, the festival will be open to the public from October 6 to 9. CCD Director Izzah Khan stated that the festival aims to promote cultural pluralism, highlight the respect for cultural diversity and heritage, and integrate intangible and tangible cultural heritage of Gandhara Civilisation through panel discussions, showcasing of local crafts, exhibition, and site visits.\u00a0 Read: Uplift projects worth PKR 11 bn to be completed in Taxila district She further added that CCD hopes to attract a diverse audience from educational institutions, diplomatic missions, researchers, artists, scholars, government departments, and the local community. It was also mentioned that the festival focuses on exploring the Gandhara Civilisation in Buddhist and Jain history in Pakistan. Moreover, CCD Director Khan stated that youth should be informed about the culture and heritage so they can feel connected to their roots.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":80298,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15016],"tags":[48692,48691,48690,48686],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-80293","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-developments","8":"tag-cultural-diversity-and-heritage","9":"tag-festival-will-be-open-to-the-public-from-october-6-to-9","10":"tag-five-day-gandhara-festival-at-taxila-museum","11":"tag-five-day-gandhara-festival-at-taxila-museum-starts-today","12":"cat-15016-id"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Five-day Gandhara festival at Taxila Museum starts today - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Center for Culture and Development (CCD) has organised a five-day Gandhara Festival that will commence from today (October 5) at Taxila Museum....\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/gandhara-festival-taxila-museum-today.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Five-day Gandhara festival at Taxila Museum starts today - Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Center for Culture and Development (CCD) has organised a five-day Gandhara Festival that will commence from today (October 5) at Taxila Museum....\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/gandhara-festival-taxila-museum-today.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; 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