World Heritage Property
Status: UNESCO World Heritage property (inscribed 1980) · Punjab · criteria (iii)(vi) · UNESCO ref 139
Overview (Verified — UNESCO)
A serial property of Gandharan sites — Bhir Mound, Sirkap, Sirsukh, Dharmarajika, Jaulian, Mohra Moradu, Jandial and others — spanning the Neolithic to the Gandharan Buddhist era, an important centre of learning and the meeting of cultures.
Location
Punjab, 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 (iii)(vi).
Conservation and the UNESCO record (Verified — UNESCO decisions)
- 24 COM VIII.33 (2000) — state of conservation
- 4 COM V.12 (1980) — inscription
Reported threats (PWHI analysis — verification required per site)
Development and infrastructure pressure across a dispersed valley; encroachment near component sites.
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/139
- UNESCO Committee decisions (via PWHI Heritage Intelligence decision corpus)
- PWHI editorial analysis is labelled as such and is not an official or UNESCO determination.