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I feel greatly honored and excited to organize Shaikh Ayaz International Conference on Language and Literature. I know it is a huge responsibility to effect to a satisfactory end. I have always kept my enthusiasm up to work for my country in general and my alma mater in particular through all the rough and cold weather. Ever since, I have worked either out of love or out of hate for things, people and places/institutes.

Organising Shaikh Ayaz International Conference on Language and Literature is of course the materialization of dream of love that I cherish for our great legend Shaikh Ayaz, the great alma mater and our professional academic activities i.e. to generate and share our research works in a wide spread global context. In attempting to effect all this many difficulties, technicalities and objections popped upon the way but by the grace of Almighty, we got through all of them with small, simple but efficient team of workers to the actualization of this conference. Love and Service, Hope and Dreams, have molded us to what we are doing for the betterment of our society, for ourselves and for future generations.

To me a university is especially meant for producing new vistas of knowledge and observations. Students are and should be our first priority to impart this new knowledge to. We have to develop a culture of research and positive inter-dialogue among the students belonging to a variety of disciplines. All this will lead to inculcate a respectable relation among the teachers and the students of the university. This type of environment will give us a chance to make our great thinker Allama I. I. Qazi’s dream come true. He would always say we should learn, work and live honourably by educating our masses on a higher level.

After the immensely successful organization of Sindhi Adabi Conference by the Department of Sindhi in 1988, I have tried this time to hold this international conference from the platform of the whole Faculty of Arts wherein I have tried to involve all the departments and institutes of the Faculty. I hope this humble effort will prove to be symbolic for the pressing need of the time i.e. to think and to work in the fast emerging global context not keeping in view the lingual, gender, racial, geographical and religious differences. This will definitely strengthen the concept of peace and harmony in the world at large.

Whenever I have done anything or completed any task I feel I have paid back a debt that I owed to my land or people. This kind of task I may have assigned to myself or an institute may have assigned me. Discharging off the duties as a student or a teacher, in the matters of research and organization, I have always felt this satisfaction:

(whenever I recited a poem, I felt as if I had discharged some debt to this land.)

In the present global scenario, the role and importance of the disciplines of Arts and Humanities, like Languages, Literature, Philosophy and History produce thinkers and leaders in a society. We take advantage of studying, evaluating and reforming our societies by studying these subjects. Research on the numerous important aspects of these disciplines will help us review the exiting situation of our societies and it will also assist us do some good to ourselves, to our nations and to our coming generation.

I am highly thankful to the scholars, paper presenters and the delegates, who, in spite of our short notice call responded so promptly and within no time we were able to collect as many as 75 research papers on the given themes of the conference. It shows that our academics and scholars are well aware of their task and are ever willing to share their views by participating in conferences like this. I do hope that the works of our scholars will give us useful readings and will make the conference lively, engaging, instructive and path breaking. Once again, on behalf of the University of Sindh, Organizing Committee myself and my team, I welcome all the participants of the conference with a sincere wish of the best of time and luck at the Jamshoro University Town.

Dr. M. Qasim Bughio

Dean Faculty of Arts

University of Sindh, Jamshoro

DR. ISHRAT UL EBAD KHAN

Governor Sindh

I heartily congratulate the organizing committee of Shaikh Ayaz International Conference on Language and Literature to have organized such an important conference dedicated to great poet Shaikh Ayaz. I am sure that this kind of grand gathering will generate ample material regarding various branches of knowledge. Sharing of views of the scholars will pave way to solutions of the prevailing world problems and will help build a better human society. I hope that participation of a number of international and local scholars in this conference will foster solidarity and enable dialogue, all in the spirit of breaking new grounds on the given themes of the conference.

Such occasions are a source of positive projection of universities and also of self-accountability. What I am alluding here to its deteriorating standard of research in higher education in the country especially in the field of Humanities and Social Sciences. This is something that we have to sincerely fight for collectively. We must be determined to take up this challenge with a missionary zeal in order to prepare the nation for the forthcoming challenging times where high degree of sophistication in Arts and Humanities coupled with technological supremacy are going to be the passwords known to everybody. I am sure such activities will develop an atmosphere of advanced learning and research in our institutes of higher education. This will also help improve the ranking of our university to a better scale.

Professor Dr. Atta-ur-Rahman, FRS

Nishan-i-Imtiaz, Hilal-i-Imtiaz, Sitara-i-Imtiaz, Tamgha-i-Imtiaz

Ph.D (Cambridge), Sc.D (Cambridge)

UNESCO Science Laureate

CHAIRMAN (Status: FEDERAL MINISTER)

& ADVISER TO PRIME MINISTER ON SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

It is a matter of pleasure to learn that the Faculty of Arts, University of Sindh is organizing Shaikh Ayaz International Conference on Language and Literature. Shaikh Ayaz has been, no doubt, a great poet, scholar and academic of Pakistan.  Our new generation needs to be introduced to his personality and creative works. Such conferences provide us a great opportunity to make people aware of our legend’s contributions.

The organization of this conference by the Faculty of Arts should help to develop interactive research culture not only among the academics and scholars of Sindh and Pakistan, the participation of foreign scholars as from India, Bangladesh and Taiwan etc will widen the scope of our communication and research regardless the geographical boundaries. The conference is also expected to encourage the students to think of higher studies in a proper way.

It is usually the departments or the institutes that organize such conferences; I am really inspired to know that Faculty of Arts is organizing this conference jointly taking all the departments and Institutes together on this important subject of Language and Literature.

I hope this kind of conferences will continue to be held by different faculties of the Universities around the country.