Friday, October 13, 2006

WPC demands jobs for 10,000 MA Punjabi students

Staff Report - Daily Times - Pakistan
Thursday, March 30, 2006

LAHORE: The government should create job vacancies for 10,000 Punjabi Master’s degree holders, said World Punjabi Congress (WPC) Chairman Fakhar Zaman addressing the inaugural session of the International conference on Sufi poet Shah Hussain on Wednesday.

Fakhar Zaman said the Punjab Institute of Art was a result of the WPC’s effort and the organisation now aimed to set up a Punjabi University in which students, lecturers and researchers would work for promotion of Punjabi and other languages.
Punjab Education Minister Mian Imran Masood said the Punjab government would take measures to create vacancies for Punjabi students and said new Punjabi newspapers, magazines and TV channels were the result of the government’s policies.
He said the Indian Punjab government’s proposal of setting up a Guru Nanak Punjabi University in Lahore was being considered.

WPC India President Satya Pal said Pakistani students must learn the Gurmukhi script along with the Shahmukhi script, to be able to read Sufi poetry and Punjabi literature of both countries. He said Punjabi was taught in schools from class 1 in the Indian Punjab.

A large number of delegates from India, England, the US, France, Germany, Sweden, Austria and Canada participated in the conference.

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Friday, October 13, 2006

WPC demands jobs for 10,000 MA Punjabi students
Staff Report - Daily Times - Pakistan
Thursday, March 30, 2006

LAHORE: The government should create job vacancies for 10,000 Punjabi Master’s degree holders, said World Punjabi Congress (WPC) Chairman Fakhar Zaman addressing the inaugural session of the International conference on Sufi poet Shah Hussain on Wednesday.

Fakhar Zaman said the Punjab Institute of Art was a result of the WPC’s effort and the organisation now aimed to set up a Punjabi University in which students, lecturers and researchers would work for promotion of Punjabi and other languages.
Punjab Education Minister Mian Imran Masood said the Punjab government would take measures to create vacancies for Punjabi students and said new Punjabi newspapers, magazines and TV channels were the result of the government’s policies.
He said the Indian Punjab government’s proposal of setting up a Guru Nanak Punjabi University in Lahore was being considered.

WPC India President Satya Pal said Pakistani students must learn the Gurmukhi script along with the Shahmukhi script, to be able to read Sufi poetry and Punjabi literature of both countries. He said Punjabi was taught in schools from class 1 in the Indian Punjab.

A large number of delegates from India, England, the US, France, Germany, Sweden, Austria and Canada participated in the conference.

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