Literature-based museum likely to be inaugurated

Islamabad: Pakistan Aca­demy of Letters (PAL) has started work on procuring manuscripts and other essential items for the country’s first-ever literature-based museum of Pakistani languages being established here at academy.

PAL Chairperson Dr Najiba Arif told APP that the establishment of Literary Museum aimed to protect and promote the unique literary asset of all the regional languages of the country. Besides preservation and promotion of the unique linguistic taste of Pakistani culture and linguistics, this museum will provide an opportunity for the visitors to seek information about scripts, history, alphabetical information, folk tales and prominent literature of the regional languages of Pakistan, she added. Dr Najiba said that the museum would provide information about all the regional languages being spoken in the length and breadth of the country.