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World heritage: Efforts needed to include more cultural, natural sites to UNESCO list

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ISLAMABAD: The country is lagging behind other nations in terms of listing its cultural sites to the global list of heritage sites. With six sites on the World Heritage List of UNESCO and 18 on a tentative list, Pakistan has no natural or mixed heritage sites on the list. This was stated by Information, Broadcasting […]


Court directs culture department to provide heritage site details

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KARACHI: The Sindh High Court (SHC) directed on Wednesday the provincial culture department authorities to submit details along with the criteria to declare old structures as protected heritage sites. Headed by SHC Chief Justice Faisal Arab, the bench was hearing a petition involving controversy over the declaration of the Hotel Metropole building as a protected […]