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A 2,000-year-old guest from Pakistan comes to Switzerland

Gandhara Buddha
Rainer Wolfsberger/Rietberg museum

Convincing Pakistan to lend an ancient Gandhara Buddha statue to a Swiss museum was the easy part. Transporting the 1.5-ton sculpture from Peshawar to Zurich posed the real challenge.

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