The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government has decided to set up Gandhara Research Center with the collaboration of Korean government for promotion of religious tourism in the province.

A spokesman of Provincial government told our Peshawar Correspondent, that there are about six thousand archeological sites including more than two thousand historical and sacred sites of Buddhism in the province.

It is pertinent to mention here that hundreds of tourists including Buddhist monks from South Korea, Thailand and other Buddhist countries visited Khyber Pakhtunkhwa during the last few months.

Matiullah/Khokhar