Pakistan’s Taxila Museum and the Mogao Caves of Dunhuang lie about 2,000 km apart, but for Muhammad Zamir Assadi, Director of the China Desk at Lord Media Network, the link between them is easy to see.
On his second visit to Dunhuang, a Silk Road city in northwest China, Assadi was shown cultural products inspired by patterns from the Mogao Caves, including the Flying Apsara and a deer motif. Asked whether Pakistan has anything similar, he pointed to the Taxila Museum.
“If you visit the Taxila Museum, you will find a lot of such similarities,” he said. “Pakistan and China are both on the route of the Silk Road, and we share a lot of historical stories together.”
Assadi said technologies including artificial intelligence are now being used to preserve historical artefacts in Pakistan too, and that the cultural connections between the two countries should be explored further and passed on to young people.
“If you want to explore the similarities between Pakistan and China, you must visit Pakistan,” he said. “You will love to see how Pakistan has preserved its historical treasures.”
