Art Council of Pakistan said it will conduct its 13th International Urdu Conference starting December 3 but this time with Covid-19 SOPs in place.
“This year the conference will be different from all the previous conferences,” said ACP president Mohammad Ahmed Shah adding that due to Covid outbreak in the country, “the 13th International Urdu Conference will be mostly limited to digital”.
According to their press statement all overseas literary personalities will mark their presence digitally in the conference.
The 13th IUC will be held from December 3 to December 6 and this time around “the conference will hold the sessions in all regional languages of Pakistan including Sindhi, Punjabi, Pashto, Siraiki, and Balochi”.
It may be noted that in the conference this year a session “Bayaad-e-Asif Farrukhi” will be held in remembrance of late literary critic Asif Aslam Farrukhi.
The sessions will host literally and social personalities like Masood Qamar from Sweden, Ghazal Ansari from the UK, Tahira Kazmi from Muscat, and Farhat Parveen from America will join the conference.
Whereas the prominent personalities of Pakistan Zia Mohyuddin, Anwer Maqsood, Sohail Ahmed, Humayun Saeed, Nadeem Baig, Yasir Hussain, Sohail Waraich, Aasma Shirazi, Haseena Moin, Peerzada Qasim Raza Siddiqui, Zehra Nigah, Asad Mohammad Khan, Hasan Manzar, Anwer Shour, Mazhar Abbas, Dr.Shehrshah Syed, Kishwar Naheed, Abbasin Yosufzai, Shah Mohammad Marri and others will be the part of the conference”.
The 4 day International Urdu Conference will comprise sessions on education, poetry, culture, literature, languages, youth Mushaira, Aalmi Mushaira, and many others, the press statement expanded.
