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District Ghanche\/Khaplu and Union Council Khaplu Bala is the historic town of Baltistan and District headquarters of Ghanche, and is 90 km away from District Skardu. Khaplu valley is situated along the River Shyoke at an altitude varying from 8,400 ft to 9,300 ft above the sea level. The historic town of Khaplu is a conglomeration of a series of hamlets.\u00a0<\/span>Khaplu Palace was built in1840, and is the finest surviving example of a royal residence in Baltistan. Its significance lies in its cultural importance and in its quality as a building, aesthetically and as an example of traditional building typology. Aga Khan Cultural Service Pakistan (AKCSP) a non-profit organization established in 1991 took the initiative of renovating and restoring the palace and other buildings and spaces around it which were in shambles since 2005.<\/span><\/p>\n INITIATIVE<\/p>\n<\/h3>\n AKCSP approached USAID\u2019s Small Grants and Ambassador\u2019s Fund Program with a proposal to establish Balti folk exhibition area within the Khaplu Palace to:<\/p>\n Create and tap income generating opportunities to manage heritage assets in a sustainable manner<\/p>\n<\/li>\n Collect, safeguard and display artifacts of historic and artistic importance from Baltistan that are in danger of being lost to illegal export, sold otherwise, vandalized, and\/or lost to decay, degradation and lack of recognition of their worth;<\/p>\n<\/li>\n Depict the history, timeline, social system, lifestyle and traditional cultural forms of the Balti people especially the regions links and influences via a strand of the Silk Road network.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n Build awareness on local culture and heritage among the local population generating pride, identity and self-confidence<\/p>\n<\/li>\n Provide authentic experience for visitors to the area.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n In order to create opportunities for local artists to display their work in the gallery and to promote the cultural heritage, the U.S Ambassador\u2019s Fund program awarded a grant of USD 27,589 from Sept 2012 to June 2013 to house these important sources of history and culture in a dedicated space within the palace.<\/p>\n RESULT<\/p>\n<\/h3>\n These artifacts are the centre-piece of the attraction of the palace. The display of local artifacts from different periods of history particularly from Buddhism era combines a unique example of Tibetan, Kashmiri and local Balti architecture will enable tourists\/visitors to have a holistic view of the local culture and its evolution.<\/p>\n [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1528361922608{padding-top: 0px !important;padding-bottom: 0px !important;}”][vc_column width=”1\/1″ id=”blogpost”][vc_column_text] CHALLENGE District Ghanche\/Khaplu and Union Council Khaplu Bala is the historic town of Baltistan and District headquarters of Ghanche, and is 90 km away from District Skardu. Khaplu valley is situated along the River Shyoke at an altitude varying from 8,400 ft to 9,300 ft above the sea level. The historic town of Khaplu is a conglomeration of a series of hamlets.\u00a0Khaplu Palace was built in1840, and is the finest surviving example of a royal residence in Baltistan. Its significance lies in its cultural importance and in its quality as a building, aesthetically and as an example of traditional building typology. Aga Khan Cultural Service Pakistan (AKCSP) a non-profit organization established in 1991 took the initiative of renovating and restoring the palace and other buildings and spaces around it which were in shambles since 2005. INITIATIVE AKCSP approached USAID\u2019s Small Grants and Ambassador\u2019s Fund Program with a proposal to establish Balti folk exhibition area within the Khaplu Palace to: Create and tap income generating opportunities to manage heritage assets in a sustainable manner Collect, safeguard and display artifacts of historic and artistic importance from Baltistan that are in danger of being lost…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":21998,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nrsp.org.pk\/sgafp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nrsp.org.pk\/sgafp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nrsp.org.pk\/sgafp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nrsp.org.pk\/sgafp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nrsp.org.pk\/sgafp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21997"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/nrsp.org.pk\/sgafp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22485,"href":"https:\/\/nrsp.org.pk\/sgafp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21997\/revisions\/22485"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nrsp.org.pk\/sgafp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nrsp.org.pk\/sgafp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nrsp.org.pk\/sgafp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nrsp.org.pk\/sgafp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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