Peshawar Museum's centenary celebrations end

The week-long Centenary Celebrations of Peshawar Museum concluded at Peshawar. The NWFP Chief Minister Akram Khan Durrani had opened the celebrations in a function in the main hall of Peshawar Museum while Governor NWFP Lieutenant General Ali Mohammad Jan Aurakzai (Retd) was the chief guest at the concluding ceremony.
The Chief Minister besides inaugurating a Tourists Information Centre in the building of Peshawar Museum and new administration block of the museum also visited different stalls and watched the NWFP Culture based pictures, dresses and artisan work of the artists. Similarly, the Governor laid the foundation stone of the Tribal Gallery in the premises of Peshawar Museum and also visited the stalls.
Main function of the celebrations was the two-day international conference on "Frontier Archeology." Besides country's key archeologists, prominent foreign researchers, historians and intellectuals from Iran, USA, UK and Greece were also attended the conference. They presented their papers on Ghandhara civilisation, archeological importance of the NWFP and historical perspective of Peshawar Museum.
The foreign delegates were also taken to the historical places of the Peshawar in a traditional Tanga procession. They also examined the ongoing excavation and rehabilitation work of the Gorkhuttree Peshawar besides visiting the newly established city museum Peshawar there.
On completion of 100 years of the Peshawar Museum it was specially decorated and different stalls reflecting the culture of NWFP were set up. The Secretary Archeology Abdul Jalil Khan and Director Museums Saleh Mohammad Khan under the supervision of the Provincial Archeology and Culture Minister Hussain Ahmed Kanju successfully organised the centenary programmes.
While the Vice Chancellor Dr Ehsan Ali, former Director Archeology Fidaullah Sehrai and other archeologists also assisted the Archeology Department in finalising its programmes. Peshawar Museum was established in 1906 and it has a speciality of having centuries old Ghandara art and civilisation and antiques which largely attracted the archeologists and tourists from all over the world.