KARACHI, April 27: The University of Karachi and the Sindh University are jointly organising a four-day “International conference on Sindh: past, present and future” to be held from April 29 to May 2, here at a local hotel.Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz is expected to inaugurate the moot, while in its 9 sessions 54 scholars from around the world will be presenting their papers.

Briefing about the moot the chairman of the KU’s Sindhi department, Prof Saleem Memon said that It was purely an academic event in which, 27 Sindhi scholars only from India were participating while researchers and Sindhi language experts from US, Italy and Dubai had also confirmed their participation. The director of the Shah Latif Chair, KU, Dr Fehmida Hussain and Shaukat Hussain Shoro from Sindh University, Jamshoro were also present on the occasion.

Prof Memon said issues relating to Sindhi language, its origin, literature, music, cultural heritage, anthropology, archaeology and education would be discussed at the conference, which was first of its kind being held in the city.

He said Pakistani scholars from KU, SU, higher educational institutes from Islamabad, Bahawalpur, Multan and other parts of the country were also participating in the moot.

Proceedings of the conference would be carried out in English, Urdu and Sindhi, he informed adding that the issue of the origin of the Sindhi language would be the focus of the event.

Prof Memon said that noted scholars, economists, academicians would chair various sessions and present their papers. Sindh governor, chief minister and education minister would also attend the moot and preside over some of its sessions, he added.

A cultural show and an Urdu-Sindhi Mushaira are also the major highlights of the event, for which poets and artists have been invited from all over the world, he added.—PPI