Pakistan, Iran to enhance cultural cooperation
Pakistan, Iran to enhance cultural cooperation
Islamabad—Iran and Pakistan would soon sign an agreement to enhance cooperation in the fields of culture and language.
In an interview with IRNA news agency, prominent Urdu poet, scholar and a visiting Professor of Urdu and Hindi at National University of Modern Languages (NUML) Iftikhar Arif said that under the agreement both countries will benefit each other with the on-going research in culture and language.
“When I was President of National language authority, I had signed an agreement with the Director of the Iranian Academy of Persian Language and Literature Gholam-Ali Haddad Adel to enhance bilateral cooperation in culture. “That agreement was approved by the governments of both the countries and soon Iran and Pakistan will formally sign the agreement,” he said.
Iftikhar Arif expressing his views said the relationship between Iran and Pakistan is strong at the government to government and people to people level. “The affection between the people of Iran and Pakistan is unprecedented,” he viewed.
The scholar added people of Pakistan love Iran and they are well wisher of Iran. He said there is no distance between Iran and Pakistan. He opined that situation of the region could create some distance between the two brotherly nations.
The intellectual said governments and people in both countries are following the tradition of cooperation and brotherhood. “Iran and Pakistan are supporting each other on all issues,” said the scholar. Iftikhar Arif said the literature of Pakistan has the influence of Persian language and the wisdom came here from Iran. “Infact awareness reached in sub-continent thorough Persian language,” he added.
He said Persian had been the official language of this region for many years. He regretted that because of the influence of English language the people of sub-continent are going away from their roots.
Iftikhar Arif pointed out that major work of philosopher, poet Dr. Allama Mohammad Iqbal is in Persian language and we cannot understand him properly without learning Persian.
He strongly believed that the major aim of colonialism was to hit the historic tradition of Muslims of India. “But now it is widely believed that by learning Persian language we will return to our roots,” viewed the intellectual.—NNI
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