Islamabad: A two-day Pakistan Mother Languages and Literary Festival would be held here at the National Institute of Folk and Traditional Heritage (Lok Virsa) from February 17. The two-day event would be organised by Indus Cultural Forum in collaboration with Lok Virsa and Strengthening Participatory Organisation (SPO).
Indus Cultural Forum coordinator Niaz Nadeem told APP that the festival aimed to promote the regional languages of Pakistan, to celebrate Pakistan’s linguistic and cultural diversity and to encourage reading in other languages. “Over 100 writers, intellectuals, critics, poets and artists from across Pakistan who write in over 18 languages would participate in the festival to discuss the diversity of languages in Pakistan from a historical perspective and the challenges they are facing” he said. “Books in Sindhi, Balochi, Pashtu, Brahvi, Seriaki, Punjabi and other languages and their Urdu and English translations would also be exhibited,” he added.
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