DADU, April 8: Eminent Sindhi poets and writers said at the conclusion of Sindh Sughar Conference Jalal Khati in Pir Tarho village on Sunday that sughars were representatives and protectors of culture as well as spokesman for common people.

The Sindhology director and playwright Shaukat Shoro said that sughars the conference organised by Yadgar Committee of Poet Jalal Khatti provided an important forum to the sughars who presented their ideas and feeling about folk literature.

Educationist and historian Habibullah Siddiqui called for preserving Jalal Khatti’s poetry while Archaeologist Dr. Syed Hakim Ali Shah Bukhari urge to organise the conference annually.

He said that Sindh possessed an unfailing fountain of folk literature which needed to be preserved. Sughars were caretakers of this literature and Jalal Khati was the leader of all sughars of past and present, he said.

Other literary figures Ahmed Khan Suhag, Saeed Ahmed, Wali Chandio and Mumtaz Abbasi and Mohammad Usman Memon also spoke at the conference which was attended by a large number of sughars.—Correspondent