{"id":21862,"date":"2023-07-31T14:33:38","date_gmt":"2023-07-31T14:33:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/?p=21862"},"modified":"2023-07-31T14:33:38","modified_gmt":"2023-07-31T14:33:38","slug":"australian-high-commissioner-lauds-pm-task-force-for-promotion-of-gandhara-heritage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/australian-high-commissioner-lauds-pm-task-force-for-promotion-of-gandhara-heritage\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian High Commissioner Lauds PM Task Force for Promotion of Gandhara Heritage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-21863\" src=\"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/IMG-20230731-WA0081-1024x685.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"696\" height=\"466\" \/>ISLAMABAD : Australian High Commissioner in Islamabad, H.E. Neil Hawkins, has shown keen interest in promotion of Gandhara tourism in Pakistan. In a meeting with Dr Ramesh Kumar Vankwani, Minister of State and Chairman PM&#8217;s Taskforce on Gandhara Tourism, he was informed about the efforts and various initiatives for attracting international tourists.<\/p>\n<p>The High Commissioner was of the view that the rich cultural heritage sites of Pakistan has huge potential in bringing people of Pakistan closer with the international community.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Ramesh Vankwani, while expressing his views, stated that the various archaeological sites, ancient Buddhist monasteries, and Gandhara artifacts of Pakistan hold immense historical, cultural, and religious significance across the world. &#8220;Gandhara heritage sites are a testimony to Pakistan&#8217;s remarkable Gandhara heritage while offering immense potential for religious and cultural diplomacy as well as tourism,&#8221; the Minister emphasized.<\/p>\n<p>The High Commissioner also lauded Dr Ramesh Vankwani for organizing the International Gandhara Symposium in which several international monks and delegates from different countries participated.<\/p>\n<p>On the occasion, various matters of bilateral interest related to minorities&#8217; rights, cultural diplomacy and faith tourism also came under discussion.<\/p>\n<p>Today, it is believed that up to 7% of world population (approximately 520 million) is composed of Buddhists whereas a good number of followers of Buddha also reside in Australia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; ISLAMABAD : Australian High Commissioner in Islamabad, H.E. Neil Hawkins, has shown keen interest in promotion of Gandhara tourism in Pakistan. In a meeting with Dr Ramesh Kumar Vankwani, Minister of State and Chairman PM&#8217;s Taskforce on Gandhara Tourism, he was informed about the efforts and various initiatives for attracting international tourists. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21863,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[321,501,2526,2314,48,3753,2376],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21862"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21862"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21864,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21862\/revisions\/21864"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}