HYDERABAD, March 20: The University of Sindh would organise a three-day international conference on “Arts and Humanities” in February next year at Allama I I Kazi Campus, Jamshoro, said a high level meeting of the organizing committee on Monday.

The meeting presided over by Vice-Chancellor University of Sindh, Mazharul Haq Siddiqui said more than 400 national and international scholars would be invited to read papers in the conference and president and prime minister would be requested to open the event.

Chairman Higher Education Commission would be asked to make a presentation in the opening session, he said.

The conference would cost about Rs5 million, which the meeting decided to seek from HEC, public universities of the country and federal and provincial governments.

The meeting fixed registration fee at US$100 for foreign scholars and Rs5,000 for local participants and formed different committees.

Mazharul Haq regretted despite high importance of arts and humanities, the two disciplines were being neglected. The HEC had set up a council for the promotion of humanities and social sciences, but no breakthrough had been made yet, he said.

Vice-Chancellor Shah Abdul Latif University Khairpur, Dr A R Malik, Dean Faculty of Arts, University of Peshawar, Dr Taqi Bangaih, Dean Faculty of Arts, Shah Abdul Latif University, Dr Nawaz Chang, and deans of various faculties and heads of institutes and departments of Sindh University attended the meeting.