India, Pakistan should look upon each other  with togetherness, not enmity

Thursday February 24, 2011 05:37:19 PM, Special Correspondent

Aligarh: Dr. Tariq Rahman, Emeritus Professor of Socio-Linguistic History at the National Institute of Pakistan Studies, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan said that people of India and Pakistan should not look upon each other with enmity but with togetherness. He also stressed on the need to bring Hindi and Urdu languages closer.

Dr. Rahman was delivering the extension lecture on ‘Social and Political History of Urdu’ organized under University Extension Lecture at Aligarh Muslim University.

In his presidential address, Vice-Chancellor, Prof. P.K. Abdul Azis encouraged the students to have a positive attitude towards their mother tongue. Prof. Azis strongly stressed upon the need for promoting Urdu medium schools.
 

Prof. S. Imtiaz Hasnain, Coordinator, University Extension Lectures welcomed the guests and introduced the speaker.

Later in the afternoon, the Department of Linguistics screened two documentaries, namely Urdu hai jiska naam and Urdu in Modern India in the Arts Faculty Lounge to mark the International Mothers’ Day. The documentaries are produced by the Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India.

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