{"id":21199,"date":"2012-07-07T12:53:59","date_gmt":"2012-07-07T09:53:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=21199"},"modified":"2012-07-07T12:53:59","modified_gmt":"2012-07-07T09:53:59","slug":"pakistan-buddhist-relics-worth-millions-seized-21199","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/pakistan-buddhist-relics-worth-millions-seized-21199\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan Buddhist relics worth millions seized"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Pakistani-Buddhism-Buddha-Valley.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-21211\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Pakistani-Buddhism-Buddha-Valley-280x210.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"280\" height=\"210\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Pakistani-Buddhism-Buddha-Valley-280x210.jpg 280w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Pakistani-Buddhism-Buddha-Valley-480x360.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Pakistani-Buddhism-Buddha-Valley.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 280px) 100vw, 280px\" \/><\/a>Pakistani officials say police have seized a large number of ancient Buddhist sculptures smugglers were attempting to spirit out of the country.<\/h1>\n<p>Salimul Haq, who is a director of the government&#8217;s archaeology department, said on Saturday the artifacts likely would have fetched millions of dollars on the international antiquities market.<\/p>\n<p>Police seized them on Friday from a 6-metre container in the southern port city of Karachi that was being trucked north toward the capital, Islamabad.<\/p>\n<p>The load included many sculptures of Buddha and other related religious figures that experts indicated could be over 2000 years old.<\/p>\n<p>The country&#8217;s northwest was once part of Gandhara, an ancient Buddhist kingdom that stretched across modern-day Pakistan and Afghanistan and reached its height from the first to the fifth century.<\/p>\n<!-- Error, Advert is not available at this time due to schedule\/geolocation restrictions! -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistani officials say police have seized a large number of ancient Buddhist sculptures smugglers were attempting to spirit out of the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":702,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,63,1,118,14],"tags":[27316,77157,27310,27311,27312,636,27308,27313,27305,27309,27306,27307],"class_list":["post-21199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-daily","category-general","category-hot","category-world","tag-ancient-buddhist-kingdom-pakistan","tag-asia","tag-buddha","tag-buddhism","tag-buddhism-pakistan","tag-pakistan","tag-pakistan-archaelogy","tag-pakistan-buddha","tag-pakistan-buddhist-sculptures","tag-pakistan-gandhara","tag-pakistan-karachi","tag-salimul-haq"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/702"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}