NEW DELHI, April 2: A delegation of editors of different newspapers from various parts of India will leave for Pakistan on April 5, to attend a seminar in Karachi on “The role of the indigenous language of media in promoting peace and cooperation in South Asia”.

The two-day seminar is being organized by the South Asian Editors’ Forum from April 6, in which editors from all SAARC countries have been invited.

Javed Jabbar, former minister for information, is the chief coordinator of the seminar.

Pakistan High Commission, who received the passports of the editors late in the afternoon, employed already short staff to stay after office hours to complete all formalities on Tuesday so that the passports of the editors from different destinations of India are dispatched in time to facilitate their departure for Karachi to attend the seminar.

The editors are from Rajasthan, Kerala, Karnataka, UP, Maharashtra, West Bengal, Orissa, Thane and Delhi.

The seminar will also be attended by editors of newspapers from Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Maldives, Bhutan, besides the host Pakistan.—APP