World Heritage Property

Status: UNESCO World Heritage property (inscribed 1980) · Khyber Pakhtunkhwa · criteria (iv) · UNESCO ref 140

Overview (Verified — UNESCO)

A Buddhist monastic complex founded in the early 1st century CE on a hilltop, one of the most complete and impressive Buddhist monasteries of Gandhara, with the neighbouring fortified city remains at Sahr-i-Bahlol.

Location

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. Property boundary and buffer zone as recorded by the World Heritage Centre — see the UNESCO record.

Criteria for inscription (Verified — UNESCO)

Inscribed under criteria (iv).

Conservation and the UNESCO record (Verified — UNESCO decisions)

• 4 COM V.12 (1980) — inscription

Reported threats (PWHI analysis — verification required per site)

Weathering, visitor pressure, surrounding land use.

PWHI position (PWHI analysis)

PWHI calls for project-level Heritage Impact Assessment for any development affecting the property or its buffer zone, submitted to the World Heritage Centre before irreversible decisions, and for the timely delivery of the management and disaster-risk instruments requested by the Committee.

Sources

• UNESCO World Heritage Centre — property record: https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/140
• UNESCO Committee decisions (via PWHI Heritage Intelligence decision corpus)
• PWHI editorial analysis is labelled as such and is not an official or UNESCO determination.