Five-day international Urdu conference at Islamabad

ISLAMABAD: A five-day International Urdu Conference has started here today with delegates drawn from nine countries and all set for the marathon intellectual discourse.

The conference organized by Jang and Geo was inaugurated by vice president of Mauritius Abdul Rauf Bandhan and he remarked Urdu languages as a unique, beautiful and it is a mirror of cultural values.

The chief of Indian Academy for literature and culture, Ajit Kaur, and Pakistani famous writer Mushtaq Ahmed and others also spoke on this occasion.

Ajit Kaur said that the civilization of the sub-continent was under severe attacks in the garb of globalization and clash of civilizations and Urdu language would prove to be helpful to promote goodwill relations between the two arch rivals India and Pakistan.

Dr. David said, “Urdu is the language plain and simple and easily comprehensible whose future is bright. Urdu is the fourth language read and understood in Britain”, he disclosed.

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