PESHAWAR
A two-day literary festival kicked off here on Saturday aiming to enhance reading and writing habits among students and people in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
The event was organized by students with the support of US-Aid and Directorate of Youth Affairs Khyber Pakhtunkhwa here at a local hotel.
Renowned scholars, writers, poets and journalists and more than 1000 students of different schools, colleges and universities participated in the festival.
On its first day of the festival the children’s literary activities, writing workshop, and Pashto poetic gatherings were held.
Renowned columnist, and educationist Dr Pervez Hoodbhoy, Dr Nasir Jamal Khattak Vice Chancellor Swabi University, Dr Shabbana Gul and Zubair Torwali shared their views with the students and also demanded of the government to revamp the curriculum according to modern age.
Talking to APP, organizer Abdur Rehman said that the main purpose of the festival is to restore the link between the writers and the readers. He said that they want to groom the creature skills of the youth in the province.
Theatre workshop, urdu and pashto writing workshop and journalistic writing workshop session would be held on the second day (Sunday).
