‘Culture is the identity of people in any society’
Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah talks to students at their stalls they organised in connection with the Sindh Cultural Day at the St. Paul’s School. photo: PPI
Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah has said that the culture is a way of life that people in society are blessed with.
Speaking at a function, organised by St. Paul's English High School at their campus, in relation with the Cultural Day, Shah said, "Culture is the characteristics of a particular group of people, defined by language, religion, cuisine, social habits, music, and arts. Through culture, we are governed by norms and customs, which are the pillars of any society and if these pillars are not properly followed, the culture is like a perfume that has no fragrance."
Shah said that it was a gradual existence of presenting those norms and customs to people around us through music, dance, art and craft, food, dressing style, and languages just to mention a few.
The CM said that the culture has been known since the time, man came into existence, and we are practicing it.
He added that we learn how to be better and more useful people in society through culture. "A human being is a very complex creature, every individual human has a distinguished attitude, behaviour as well as traits," he said and added it is only through a culture that human beings act uniformly and live as a society.
Shah said that Pakistan is believed to be the cornerstone of culture and every year, thousands of people from all over the world visit Pakistan to witness the beautiful culture, history, and other amazing natural phenomena which Pakistan is blessed with and which it cherishes, for instance, the earth surface features, wild animals, as well as hospitality of the people in the country.
"We Pakistanis live our lives with whatever surrounds us; that is our culture, and it is through which we are identified," the CM said.
Murad Ali Shah called for the protection of all that we have in our culture and whatever was good should be taken to great heights and we should try our level best to eliminate everything that is against the human rights.
Earlier, the Principal of the school Leonard Anthony Dias welcomed the chief minister and thanked him for visiting the stalls, displaying the cultural activities, music, and food habits of the people of different provinces.
The chief minister interacted with the children clad in cultural dresses.
Published in The Express Tribune, December 4th, 2022.