Chairman PAL visited FLI office, Islamabad

Chairman of Pakistan Academy of Letters (PAL), Dr. Yousuf Khushk paid a visit to FLI today to witness a language documentation training and spent more than two hours at its office. He also met with the Gawarbati language researchers who are currently participating in a workshop at the office. Earlier, the Executive Director of FLI and Chairman of FLI’s Board received him and briefed him about the current projects of the organization. He inquired about various stages of language documentation and appreciated FLI’s efforts to preserve and promote Pakistan’s languages.

Dr. Khushk showed great interest to collaborate with FLI in the future, and expressed his desire to increase the cooperation between the two organizations. He said that PAL and FLI will benefit from each other’s expertise and resources which will result in strengthening of our cultural and linguistic diversity. Dr. Khushk was presented with FLI’s books, it has published in or about the indigenous languages of Pakistan. He revealed that he was working on developing a cultural museum at PAL premises and sought FLI’s cooperation in the process. FLI management wowed to collaborate with PAL as both the organizations seemed to have shared the goals, especially of strengthening the cultural and linguistic diversity of the country.