MULTAN, Aug 31 The Asian Association for Lexicography has elected Dr Zaffar Iqbal, dean, Islamic Studies and Languages, Bahauddin Zakariya University, as its president during a conference held in Thailand.

The biennial conference of the Asian Association for Lexicography, ASIALEX 2009, on dictionaries in education was held at the Department of Languages and Social Sciences, King Mongkut's Institute of Technology Ladkrabang (KMITL), Bangkok, Thailand, from Aug 20 to 22 in which besides Dr Zaffar, three presenters from Bahauddin Zakariya University, including Ms Yasmin Zaffar, Rana Faqir Muhammad Aslam and Masroor Sibtain, represented Pakistan and gave oral presentation of research papers.

The members of conference elected Dr Zaffar unanimously as the president of the association and Dr Mobina Talaat as its secretary general.

The Asian Association for Lexicography (ASIALEX) was established in March 1997, during the Dictionaries in Asia conference that was held at the Language Centre of Hong Kong University of Science and Technology with the major objective to foster scholarly and professional activities in the field of lexicography in Asia.