Indian literary team due today

Published December 17, 2004

KARACHI, Dec 16: A 32-member delegation of Indian-Sindhi literary figures is arriving here from Delhi on a 10-day visit of the country on Friday.

The Sindhi Academy Delhi team will participate in the three-day "Shah, Sachal, Sami: International Peace Conference" being organized by the Sindh Graduates Association at a local hotel.

Senate Chairman Mohammadmian Soomro will inaugurate the conference on Saturday. The Indian team will leave the city on Tuesday on a week-long tour of the interior of Sindh to visit various places having religious and cultural importance.

The team will visit the Institute of Sindhology at the Sindh University Jamshoro on Tuesday. It will go to Bhit Shah to the Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai's Mausoleum on Wednesday, and later visit the temple of Sawai Sahib in Shahdadpur and will visit Hala, before returning to Hyderabad.

It will visit Rehrki Sahib and Daraza Sharif on Thursday, and the Samadhi of Bhagat Kanwar Ram on Friday. It will visit Sadh Belo temple located on an Indus River island between Sukkur and Rohri on Saturday. The team will then leave for Shikarpur and visit the Shrine of Sami.

The visitors will visit Moenjodaro and Sehwan Sharif on Sunday, and then go to Sunn - the native village of the late Sindhi nationalist leader G M Syed. They will stay at Keenjhar lake on Sunday night, and visit temples at Thatta, and graveyards at Makli and Chowkundi before returning to the city on Monday.

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