ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has approved an increase in awards and scholarships for poets, writers, and intellectuals.
Similarly, twenty annual literary awards will be given instead of eleven to encourage young writers.
Under the approved package, life insurance facility has been extended to seven hundred writers with the amount increased up to two hundred thousand for natural death and four hundred thousand for accidental death.
The prime minister also approved the Intezar Hussain literary award.