<div dir="ltr"><h1>President praises Air varsity team for promoting Urdu language </h1>
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<p style="text-align:justify">Islamabad
- President Mamnoon Hussain on Friday invited the Air University team
involved in the promotion and implementation of Urdu language and
applauded their efforts.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify">The Air University team headed by Dean,
Faculty of Social Sciences Prof Dr Wasima Shehzad presented the
recommendation report and conference proceedings held previous year for
the promotion of Urdu language.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify">Prof. Dr Wasima Shehzad briefed some of
the important recommendations of the conference regarding language
policy in official domains and in the fields of education, media, law,
medicine and military.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify">President Mamnoon Hussain directed his
team to utilize this report as a guiding framework for the
implementation of Urdu and preservation and promotion of all Pakistani
Languages. </p>
<p style="text-align:justify">The air university team was also invited
by the Senate’s Standing Committee for Law and by Academy of Letters
where the same report was presented.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify">Air University Faculty of Social
Sciences held a policy dialogue to address the concerns of the
linguistics issues of Pakistan which quite often lead to crises.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify">As a follow up, and keeping abreast with
the linguistic scenario of Pakistan, Faculty of Social Sciences, Air
University in collaboration with Higher Education Commission (HEC) also
organized the Policy Dialogue on Language of Pakistan on October 25-06,
2016.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify">The dialogue was unique of its kind as
it engaged all the stake holders including educationists, lawyers,
judges, media persons, doctors, bureaucrats, military persons and other
officials.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify">Language experts from USA, Spain,
Jordan, Algeria and Libya also participated in this dialogue and gave
their valuable input regarding language planning and policy.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify">The dialogue was followed by two post conference publications including Conference Proceedings and Recommendation Report.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify">These publications were shared with all the stakeholders including policy makers in Government of Pakistan.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify">Akhtar Abbas and Prof. Wasima Shehzad
have presented research papers based on language planning and policy in
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