The Sindh Culture Day will be celebrated officially and unofficially this week.
Senior Education Minister Nisar Ahmed Khuhro stated this while addressing a press conference at the Sindh Assembly building on Thursday. Quoting a news item published on December 2, 2014, in a Sindhi medium newspaper, Khuhro said the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) had always tried to promote the Sindh culture with positive sense but someone had written in newspaper that “axe is also the part of Sindhi culture so it should be included in Topi Ajrak Day”. Reacting on these words, he said on the Day of Akta (Day of unity), no one should try to spread anarchy as “we have seen losing lives with axes and weapons.”
Khuhro said every country leader wore its conventional dresses and adopted other things when they visited other countries. During the regime of PPP, former president of Pakistan Asif Ali Zardari visited other countries wearing Sindhi topi and PPP chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari also ran a campaign for promoting Sindh culture across the world. He said:” Sindh is province of liberalism and sufis, therefore such types of statements contradict our claims.” He said: “We honour those living people in Sindh.”
The minister said they had decided that with the help of media, plantation campaign should be started in every school which had no boundary wall. Replying a question, he said: “All living in the province are equal for us.” Khuhro said unemployment was a critical problem facing Sindh, however, the government was taking various steps to overcome it and in this regard, their government had appointed 20,700 people as teachers on merit basis. He said 1,188 orders of school teachers were distributed among the residents of Karachi in NJV School few days before.
