Culture & Heritage

Silk Road Centre’s Culture and Heritage program is grounded in the vision of protecting cultural and natural heritage in order to improve the welfare and prospects for the people of Pakistan and the Silk Road Region. The Centre draws its inspiration from the historical Silk Road, which throughout its existence brought diverse cultures together for mutual benefit.

Endowed with rich cultural and natural heritage, Pakistan is an important country of the Silk Road system. Besides its cultural diversity, the country has hundreds of historical and architectural sites that stand as an imposing witness to the antiquity of Pakistani culture. Alongside the Muslim civilization, the world’s great faiths such as Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Sikhism and Zoroastrianism have all had an enormous impact on the evolution of Pakistani society and culture.

This beautiful country abounds with treasures of nature including fertile plains, deserts, plateaus, high mountain peaks, glaciers, rivers, sea and rare flora and fauna. Many people in Pakistan are unaware of the wealth of cultural and natural resources largely due to lack of awareness and heritage education. This has given way to intolerance in society and is a major factor in depletion of natural resources.

Our Culture and Heritage program aims at building knowledge and capacity through collaboration and exchanges to promote the understanding and value of protecting cultural and natural heritage for future generations. The Centre seeks to support the government and engage industry, civil society and public to address most critical challenges in preservation of cultural and natural heritage of Pakistan.

Our program covers the following key themes:

• Cross-cultural understanding and dialogue
• Heritage education and learning
• Heritage policies, governance and reforms
• Culture and heritage protection
• Conservation of water and fragile ecosystems
• Cross-cultural understanding and dialogue
• Heritage education and learning