

While talking to the literati, the CM said that several steps had been taken for the welfare of writers and poets, adding that membership cards were being issued to writers and poets by the Board for Advancement of Literature to provide financial assistance through the writers’ welfare fund.

Punjab Culture Minister Khayal Ahmad Kastro, SACM Hasaan Khawar, director Mansoor Afaq, and others were also present. He took keen interest in items belonging to Allama Iqbal, poets and intellectuals at Lahore literary museum while viewing a place for storytelling. LAHORE - Punjab Chief Minister Sardar Usman Buzdar inaugurated a tea shop, Punjab’s first literary museum and ‘Adabi Baithak’ at Majlis-e-Taraqqi-e-Adab (Board for Advancement of Literature) on Tuesday and laid the foundation stone of the e-library block.
