{"id":13318,"date":"2014-02-02T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-02-02T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2014\/02\/02\/pakistan-s-mohenjo-daro-ruins-threatened-by-festival\/"},"modified":"2014-02-02T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-02-02T12:00:00","slug":"pakistan-s-mohenjo-daro-ruins-threatened-by-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2014\/02\/02\/pakistan-s-mohenjo-daro-ruins-threatened-by-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan&#8217;s Mohenjo Daro Ruins &#8220;Threatened By Festival&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/m.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-asia-25962278\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>UNITED KINGDOM, January 30, 2014 (BBC): Conservationists in Pakistan have asked UNESCO to stop part of a cultural event being held on a World Heritage site. The group of scholars and archaeologists say the opening ceremony of the Sindh cultural festival could damage the ruins of Mohenjo Daro. It is the world&#8217;s oldest surviving city and dates back to the Indus Valley civilisation.<\/p>\n<p>The festival is the brainchild of the young leader of the Pakistan People&#8217;s Party, Bilawal Bhutto Zardari. The BBC&#8217;s Shahzeb Jillani in Karachi says official arrangements for the opening ceremony are in full swing &#8211; but leading conservationists are outraged. They are worried that the construction work needed for the festival&#8217;s opening ceremony could irreparably damage the 5,000-year-old site and have written to the UN&#8217;s heritage body to ask it to intervene.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source UNITED KINGDOM, January 30, 2014 (BBC): Conservationists in Pakistan have asked UNESCO to stop part of a cultural event,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13318\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}