‘Skill enhancement essential for students’ bright future'

Speakers appreciate efforts of trainees in different programmes

BAHAWALPUR: In a bid to enhance the creative skills of students, Islamia University Bahawalpur has undertaken various programmes and extra-curricular activities. It will usher a new era of talented, bright and creative intellectuals in the coming years while it is essential for future prospects of the youth.

This was said by Islamia University Faculty of Arts Dean Professor Memona Ghani while speaking as a chief guest at a certificate giving ceremony to the trainees of theatrical performance and painting. The event was jointly organised by Interactive Resource Centre, Islamia University and Bahawalpur Arts Council at Rasheedia Auditorium the other day.

While addressing the participants, Interactive Resource Centre Director Muhammad Waseem said IRC was committed to promote cultural pluralism and co-existence by sharpening and the creative potential on modern lines.

Prominent cartoonist Sabir Nazar paid rich tribute to the creative talent of the students of Islamia University for producing paintings in a short span of time that depicted various shades of their inner soul.

Chief Minister Talent Hunt Programme Divisional Focal Person Rana Ajaz Mahmood said the joint venture of Bahawalpur Arts Council and IRC was aimed to produce an intellectual chain reaction to decimate the evil forces of parochialism and infuse the intellectual spirit of humanism.

“Battle of ideas can only be won by imparting training to the youth by blending the modern trends of liberalism to achieve the goals of national action programme,” he noted.

Published in The Express Tribune, March 8^th, 2017.