| Rawalpindi: The Rawalpindi Arts Council has announced that it will organise a two days Gandhara Festival starting from January 29, news sources reported on January 12.
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The event will be held at the Gandhara Centre and Taxila Museum and will feature exhibitions, panel discussions, storytelling sessions, a documentary on the history of the civilization, a book fair, a folk dance, and a Sufi night. In addition to this, a five-day art exhibition will also be held at the Rawalpindi Arts Council from January 31 to February 4, and will be inaugurated by Provincial Minister for Sports and Culture Malik Taimoor Masood.
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Speaking to the media, Rawalpindi Arts Council Director Waqar Ahmed stated that the festival and exhibition have been organised to promote the oldest Gandhara civilisation that flourished from the middle of the first millennium BCE to the beginning of the second millennium CE, in what is present-day northern Pakistan and Afghanistan. |
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