{"id":19483,"date":"2012-06-28T12:58:26","date_gmt":"2012-06-28T10:58:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/sala_stampa\/archivionotizie\/comunicati\/2012\/06\/20120628_pakistan-2\/"},"modified":"2012-06-28T12:58:26","modified_gmt":"2012-06-28T10:58:26","slug":"20120628_pakistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/sala_stampa\/archivionotizie\/approfondimenti\/2012\/06\/20120628_pakistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan: the Jahanabad Buddha restored"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>The Jahanabad Buddha is coming back to life thanks to Italy, with funds from the Pakistan debt conversion. The restoration of the 6th-7th century A.D. statue is being done by ISIAO (Italian institute for Asia and the Orient) in partnership with the province of Khyber Pakthunkwa and the collaboration of non-governmental organisation ISCOS-CISL.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>At the moment consolidation of the portion damaged by the Taliban in 2007 has been completed, and a second phase is scheduled for the autumn.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>Restoration of the Buddha is part of the &#8220;Archaeology, Community, Tourism &#8211; Field School&#8221; project that also includes restoration of the Museum of Swat, the Stupa of Saidu Sharif, excavation of the ancient city of Bazira (4th century B.C.), the Stupa of Amluk-Dar\u00e0, the Stupa of Gumbat and conservation of the Ghaznavide Mosque (10th century A.D.) of Udegram. The mission also trains excavation and restoration personnel and guides.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Jahanabad Buddha is coming back to life thanks to Italy, with funds from the Pakistan debt conversion. The restoration of the 6th-7th century A.D. statue is being done by ISIAO (Italian institute for Asia and the Orient) in partnership with the province of Khyber Pakthunkwa and the collaboration of non-governmental organisation ISCOS-CISL. At the [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[45,29,32],"class_list":["post-19483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-approfondimenti","tag-asia-e-oceania","tag-cooperazione-sviluppo","tag-diplomazia-culturale"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19483\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}