ISLAMABAD, Pakistan: Allama Iqbal Open University (AIOU) will hold an ‘International Urdu Conference’ to promote language and literature as a tool to uphold harmony and understanding among various linguistic groups and civilizations.
The first-ever moot at the level of AIOU will take place within next two months.
It will be the part of the University’s concerted endeavor to provide academic and intellectual input in the efforts of promoting national cause through literary and cultural activities.
The Vice-Chancellor of AIOU Professor Dr. Shahid Siddiqui said that the event aimed at promotion of Urdu language at national and international level as well as holding dialogue for a common cause.
Apart from writers and intellectuals from Pakistan, a number of writers and intellectual were being invited from the countries like India, Turkey and Iran.
The conference will help to work out a mechanism for translation of various regional languages into Urdu for understanding of a common reader.
“We believe literature of each language has its own social and cultural values that can be a source of strength for unity and bringing the people at one platform working together for peace and prosperity,” Dr. Shahid Siddiqui said.
The AIOU has decided to set up a translation Department to interpret different languages into Urdu or other language of regional or international interest.
