In the ninth edition of the International Urdu Conference hosted by the Arts Council of Pakistan in Karachi, no Indian writers and poets are set to attend this. This is because of the prevailing tension on the India-Pakistan border.
A council member Ahmed Shah, said that, “Every year Indian writers and poets attend the moot lending it variety but this time round due to tensions on the Pakistan-India border, they will not be seen reading their papers or taking part in different sessions as panelists.”
Shah said on the non-availability of the Indian writers and poets, said that he did not believe in dividing literature on the basis of religion. He said Indian writers (Gulzar, Gopichand Narang etc) had contributed substantially to Urdu literature but, these days, Indian writers were afraid of visiting Pakistan fearing they’d be treated badly on their return to India.
By this statement, he indicated that if Indian writer would go to Pakistan and will attend the conference then Indians writer will be treated badly in India and that is the only reason of not coming to the ninth edition of the International Urdu Conference.
He further said, he would try and have some of the writers get connected to the conference, which is scheduled to be held from December 1 to 4.
Shah said, from within Pakistan, almost all renowned writers and poets had been invited in the conference. Invitation had been sent to different countries and from countries such as US, Germany, Denmark, Britain, Finland and Egypt would participate in the conference.
After the militants entered from Pakistan and attacked on Nagrota of Jammu over the army camp and because of the ridiculous act done by Pakistan. In this attack 7 army men were dead and 5 militants were killed by the security forces. The search operation is still on in which security forces got a bomb but later it was difused by the forces.
--with agency inputs
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