ANKARA, 20 October 2016: Pakistan’s Ambassador to Turkey Sohail Mahmood
hosted at Pakistan House last evening the participants of the International
Urdu Congress, held in Antalya on 13-16 October in connection with centenary
birthday celebrations of Ahmed Nadeem Qasmi.
The guests included prominent writers, poets, and Urdu scholars from
Pakistan, Japan and Turkey.
Speaking on the occasion, Ambassador Sohail profoundly thanked Prof. Dr.
Asuman Belen Ozcan, Chair, Department of Urdu, Ankara University, for her
tireless efforts in organizing the Congress and highlighting Ahmed Nadeem
Qasmi’s life and achievements internationally.
Turkey’s development agency, TIKA, supported the convening of the
Congress.
The Ambassador thanked the Congress participants for their respective
contributions on the life and works of Ahmad Nadeem Qasmi – an illustrious man
of letters and a giant figure of Urdu literature.
Highlighting growing collaboration between Pakistan and Turkey in the
promotion of Urdu language and literature, Ambassador Sohail also called upon
the eminent guests to help further strengthen Pakistan-Turkey links in the
fields of literature, arts, and culture as part of the efforts to deepen
people-to-people contacts between the two fraternal countries.
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