KARACHI, Dec 19: The University of Karachi will organize an International Sindh Conference in the first quarter of the next year. This was stated by a KU spokesman in a statement issued here on Monday.

He said that the four-day moot would be organized by the Shah Latif Chair of the Karachi University in collaboration with the University of Sindh.

The statement said that Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz would be the chief guest at the inaugural session while senate chairman would be requested to preside over the concluding ceremony.

It said that a decision to this effect was taken at a meeting held here on Monday, which was jointly presided over by KU Vice-Chancellor Prof Dr Pirzada Qasim Raza Siddiqui and Prof Mazharul Haq Siddiqui.

Mehtab Akbar Rashdi, Inam Shaikh, Shaukat Hussain Shoro, Zulfiqar Halipoto, Moammad Qasim Bughio, Ibrar Qazi, Qamar Shahbaz, Ghulam Nabi Mughal, Dr Fehmida Hussain, Syed Mazhar Jameel, Prof Dr Akhlaq Ahmed also attended the meeting.

Organizing Secretary Prof Saleem Memon told the meeting that a number of scholars from abroad would also attend the conference.

Papers will be presented on Sindhi language, civilization, culture, poetry, cultural heritage, anthology and archaeology.—APP