Archaeologists set out to save relics from destruction
ISLAMABAD: Archaeologists are trying the save the many surviving cultural relics scattered across Islamabad before they are lost to the developing housing societies.
Experts from the Department of Archaeology and Museums (DOAM) and the National History and Literary Division have planned to survey all the four zones of Islamabad and document and protect the relics from being destroyed.
“Several of these sites and monuments are like little wonders and are located on sites on which housing societies are being built. A survey for documenting these sites and monuments is being conducted for the first time and will help us identify these relics so that they can be protected from destruction and vandalism under the Antiquities Act 1975,” said Mohsin Haqqani, secretary National History and Literary Division.
DOAM archaeologists surveyed Kuri in Zone IV of Islamabad and came across more than just a few thousands of pottery pieces scattered around a few documented sites.
“Kuri is littered with dozens of artefacts and relics from Budhist, Muslim, Sikh and British eras,” a DOAM official said.