Dyal Singh Library holds International Punjabi conference

LAHORE : Dyal Singh Library organised the International Punjabi Conference on Culture here on Thursday.

According to a press release, Chairman World Punjabi Congress Fakhar Zaman presided over the conference while director of Dyal Singh Library Prof Sarfraz Shahid and a number of local and international delegates from Canada attended the conference. Chairman World Punjabi Congress Fakhar Zaman, in his address, said that the Punjabi movement would be successful only when the first ever Punjabi University was established in Lahore and Punjabi was taught at the primary level.

He said that bureaucracy was a stumbling block in the way of establishing Punjabi University and making Punjabi a medium of education at primary level.

Dr Ajaib Singh Chattha from Canada presented his book on alphabets of Punjabi in Urdu and English languages. Prof Sarfraz Shahid said that Dyal Singh Library would keep on holding conferences and said that he was very pleased with the fact that World Punjabi Congress was organising the 33rd International Conference on the heroic tradition of the Punjab Province in early March this year.