ACP to organise World Urdu Conference

KARACHI:

The Arts Council Pakistan, Karachi, will organise the 15th Internation Urdu Conference from December 1 to 4, 2022.

Delegations from all over the world have started arriving in Karachi to attend the conference.

Speaking at the press conference, ACP President Muhammad Ahmad Shah said that the tradition of World Urdu Conference started fifteen years ago, and now it has become a powerful moot, which is awaited all over the world.

He said, "We have linked six languages of Pakistan to the World Urdu Conference. There will be more than 45 meetings at the four-day event, in which hundreds of experts and intellectuals from all over the world will express their views."

Shah further said that there is a need to connect the economic and political divisions of the country.

Delegates from India did not get NOC, therefore people from India will participate online in the conference.

Speakng on the occasion, writer Anwar Maqsood said that holding a conference in times of economic crisis is a big deal.

Renowned poet Iftikhar Arif said that it is not easy to bring writers of all languages of Pakistan under one roof but the ACP has done it.