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Hyderabad to host world Urdu editors conference
Monday December 26, 2011 08:20:31 PM,
IANS
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Hyderabad: Editors of
Urdu newspapers from India, Pakistan and other countries will
participate in the World Urdu Editors Conference to be held here
Dec 30-31.
The two-day event, being organised by Urdu daily Siasat, will
discuss the problems faced by Urdu newspapers and Urdu
journalists.
"It is the first conference of its kind aimed at bringing Urdu
newspapers to a common platform," Siasat editor Zahid Ali Khan
told a news conference here Monday.
To be inaugurated by Vice President Hamid Ansari, the conference
will be attended by editors and other journalists of 40
newspapers.
Editors from Pakistan, Middle East, Britain and Canada would also
participate in the conference, which will discuss the challenges
faced by Urdu newspapers.
It will discuss the idea of bringing Urdu newspapers under one
umbrella, efforts to promote the readership and to take up various
problems with the authorities.
Siasat, which is working to promote Urdu and is also engaged in
social activities like helping poor students, providing relief to
cancer patients and guiding students and youth in obtaining jobs,
is also working on a project to link Urdu newspapers across the
country.
"Under the project launched on experimental basis, 12 Urdu
newspapers have joined hands with us. We are providing them
content in Urdu from here," said Khan, who plans to rope in many
others.
According to conference convenor Aijaz Farrukh, four editors from
Pakistan have confirmed their participation. Mehmood Sham, group
editor, ARY, Sohail Waraich of daily Jung, Tanveer Qaiser of
Express group and Ayaz Badshah of Mashriq would be among the
delegates.
Khan said the editors conference was part of the efforts initiated
by Siasat with World Urdu Conference in 2006 to unite people who
speak, read or write Urdu.
As part of the conference, an exhibition would also be organized.
The organisers said 160-year-old Urdu newspapers would also be
displayed.
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