NAWABSHAH, Dec 15: Sindh Minister for Culture and Tourism Rauf Siddiqui has said that his ministry will organise Sindh-Urdu Mushaairas in every district of the province. Speaking as chief guest at the first of a series of Sindhi-Urdu Mushaairas organised by Sindh Ministry of Culture and Tourism with the collaboration of taluka municipal administration at Hamid Ali Club on Thursday he said that such programmes would not only promote national integrity and brotherhood but would also bring different communities closer.

Mr Siddiqui said that he was son of the soil and felt it his responsibility to protect the province’s historical heritage. Sindh government was working on Gorakh Hill and Rani Kot projects to promote tourism, he informed.

Renowned poet Jamiluddin Aali presided over the Mushaaira in which Qaiser Wajdi, Shamsher Hyderi, Imdad Hussaini, Prof Sehar Ansari, Prof Inayat Ali, Prof Manzar Ayoubi, Abdul Ghaffar Tabassum, Gulnar Afreen, Saleem Qaiser, Asif Siddique, Ahmed Zia, Manik Mallah, Mir Abdul Rasool Mir and Azir Aijaz among others recited their Urdu and Sindhi verses.

KILLED: A man was killed after he was hit by a motorway police vehicle near Qazi Ahmed on the National Highway on Friday.

Jan Mohammad Jiskani, 63, died on the spot after getting hit, reports reaching here said.