{"id":14251,"date":"2025-11-17T16:58:57","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T16:58:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/2025\/11\/17\/combating-cultural-property-karachi\/"},"modified":"2025-11-17T16:58:57","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T16:58:57","slug":"combating-cultural-property-karachi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/2025\/11\/17\/combating-cultural-property-karachi\/","title":{"rendered":"Combating Cultural Property Trafficking in Karachi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A delegation from the French Embassy in Pakistan, including the embassy\u2019s Internal Security Service, accompanied a legal analyst from the French Central Office for Combating Cultural Property (<strong>OCBC<\/strong>) to an international conference in Karachi last month aimed at tackling illicit trafficking in cultural property.<\/p>\n<p>Co-organized by UNESCO and the Government of Sindh, the event gathered international partners such as UNODC, Interpol, ICOM and Unidroit to exchange operational approaches and legal frameworks. The conference focused on strengthening investigative cooperation, improving artifact provenance research, and sharing good practices to prevent the illicit movement of cultural property.<\/p>\n<p>The OCBC\u2019s recognized international expertise facilitated practical discussions and the sharing of case studies that can inform bilateral and regional cooperation with Pakistani authorities. For Sindh, whose tangible and intangible heritage is especially rich, these exchanges aim to bolster protection measures and cross-border collaboration to halt illicit trafficking of cultural property.<\/p>\n<p>French embassy involvement alongside UNESCO and Sindh Government partners underscores growing international momentum to protect Pakistan\u2019s heritage and to support local institutions in recovery and safeguarding efforts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>French OCBC and embassy security joined UNESCO-led talks in Karachi to strengthen cultural property protection and cross-border cooperation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":14250,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[94],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14251\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}