World Heritage Day 18 April 2019

Events

In collaboration with Quaid-i-Azam University’s Taxila Institute of Asian Civilizations and the International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS) Pakistan, the Silk Road Centre organized a symposium on the rural heritage of Pakistan. Parliamentary Secretary Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ms. Andleeb Abbas presided over the symposium.

Reviving Pakistan’s Dying Dawoodi Language

Diversity

  This new project is an initiative by Silk Road Centre to mobilize the small community of 400 people in Pakistan’s Hunza valley to revive their ancient language. They have stopped using their own language in private and public domains because of stigma attached to it. Once spoken in many villages, this Old Indic language…