Arts Council playing vital to restore culture & glory of Karachi: Sindh CM
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Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah has said that the Arts Council of Pakistan is playing a vital to restore the culture and glory of the city.
Felicitating the wining Ahmed Shah Panel of the Arts Council of Pakistan in the recent election, Murad Ali Shah hoped that the elected members will continue their efforts to promote arts and culture.
Three panels contest in Arts Council’s biennial elections
Karachi
December 21, 2020
Around 4,500 registered voters of the Arts Council of Pakistan participated in the biennial elections of the council’s office-bearers on Sunday.
The candidates belonged to different walks of life and fields of arts. In recent years, the Arts Council has played a crucial role in the development of art and culture of the city. Even during 2020, when cultural activities seemed to have come to a standstill in Karachi owing to the Covid-19 pandemic, the council managed to continue with multiple theatre festivals and other programmes, including the International Urdu Conference.
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SHC orders Joint Stock Companies registrar to oversee Arts Council polls
Karachi
December 19, 2020
The Sindh High Court (SHC) has ordered that the Joint Stock Companies registrar shall oversee the election process of the Arts Council of Pakistan (ACP) to ensure fair and transparent elections scheduled for tomorrow (December 20).
The direction came on a petition of Zulfiqar Haider seeking fair and transparent elections of the ACP under the supervision of the Joint Stock Companies Karachi registrar. The District South deputy commissioner (DC), who is also the election commissioner for the ACP elections, submitted that the elections were being conducted by him in accordance with the memorandum and article of Association of the ACP.
Speakers, both in person and via web links, in discussion at the 13th International Urdu Conference at the Arts Council of Pakistan, Karachi | Fahim Siddiqi/White Star
One could sense a note of dejection in the voice of Ahmed Shah, president of the Arts Council of Pakistan, Karachi, when, at the press conference to talk about the programme for the 13th International Urdu Conference, he told the media that this time round the event would be organised largely online because of the Covid-19 situation in the country. It was understandable.
The conference in the last 12 years had attracted large crowds for multiple reasons and not necessarily for the love of the Urdu language especially on its opening and closing days. To be honest, when Indian scholar Professor Shamim Hanfi and Pakistani poet Yasmeen Hameed (whom one had seen in the flesh at some of the earlier editions of the very conference) delivered their keynote addresses on the inaugural day via video link from Delhi and Laho