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Pakistan has six UNESCO World Heritage Sites: what each one represents

Pakistan's six inscribed UNESCO World Heritage properties span the Indus civilisation, Gandhara Buddhism, Mughal Lahore, Sindh's funerary landscape and Suri military architecture.

Bilal Ahmed · 12 Oct 2026

Heritage

Takht-i-Bahi: why Pakistan's best-preserved Buddhist monastery sits on a hill

Takht-i-Bahi preserves an unusually complete Gandharan Buddhist monastic complex, organised across hill terraces with stupa courts, cells and assembly spaces.

Bilal Ahmed · 3 Oct 2026