KARACHI, Aug 28: A national literary conference on Indus Valley civilization, focusing on the Soomra period, will be held in the second week of November at the University of Karachi.

According to a press release issued here on Tuesday, the moot is being organised by the KU’s Department of Sindhi. The conference highlighting the Soomra period (1050-1351) will be the first of the six proposed biannual conferences covering a period of almost 900 years of various rules in Sindh.

Prof Dr Khursheed Abbasi, chairperson of the Department of Sindhi, University of Karachi, has said the six conferences will cover the Soomra, Sama, Arghun, Turkhan and Mughal, Kalhora and Talpur periods, culminating in the British Raj in the sub-continent. “All these periods of rule are known for their specific social, political, economic, literary and historical importance and need to be looked into,” she said.—APP