First ever Urdu language centre

The first ever Urdu Language Training Centre in Sri Lanka was inaugurated last week at the Hilton residencies last week.

 The Minister for National Dialogue, Mano Ganesan, was the chief guest at the inauguration. The High Commissioner of Pakistan in Sri Lanka Maj. Gen. (R) Syed Shakeel Hussain, State Minister of National Integration and Reconciliation, A.H.M. Fowzie, ministers, ambassadors, senior government officials and parents and friends of students attended the grand event.

The Urdu Language Centre has been established by the High Commission of Pakistan as part of Pakistan Culture, Education and Urdu Language Learning Centre, and it would be imparting language training to Pakistani, Sri Lankan and other expatriate students. The Urdu Centre has been named after Baba-e-Urdu Maulvi Abdul Haq in view of his vision and extraordinary contribution towards development of the modern Urdu language.