Aiwan-i-Iqbal

Published August 8, 2008

SIALKOT, Aug 7: The Iqbal Academy, Lahore, has announced that Aiwan-i-Iqbal will be set up in Sialkot with the help of businessmen to promote the vision of Dr Allama Muhammad Iqbal.

At a meeting with businessmen at the Sialkot Chamber of Commerce and Industry here on Thursday, Iqbal Academy Director Dr Suhail Umer said four kanal land had been acquired in Sialkot’s Cantonment area for the Aiwan-i-Iqbal project, which would cost Rs15 million.

He said the Seerat Study Centre should begin Persian language classes so that people could understand Iqbal’s Persian poetry. —Correspondent

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