Pakistan delegation to visit Chhapar Chiri

ATTARI: Pakistan Punjab’s former education minister Imran Masood along with former mayor of Gujrat in Pakistan Haroon Masood and businessman Tariq Shah arrived in India on Tuesday to attend the oath-taking ceremony of the SAD-BJP alliance at Baba Banda Singh Bahadur war memorial in Chhapar Chiri village of Mohali on Wednesday.
Masood said, “Governments of India and Pakistan should open institutes dedicated to saints of the Indian sub-continents whose teachings have helped promote peace and harmony.” He said the proposal for setting up of Baba Nanak International University at the birthplace of Guru Nanak in Nankana Sahib was with the cabinet.The university shall be twinned with the Guru Nanak Dev University (GNDU), he said. Masood said they would take with them Punjabi books and research papers from GNDU, so that those could be replicated there.
He said the Pakistan government had decided to invite international students for pursuing masters in Gurmukhi and Shahmukhi scripts. Speaking about the education system in Pakistan, Masood said Pakistan had designed a mega education reform programme under which free quality education and books were provided to the students.
Masood and others would explore the areas of mutual interest in India. “We will meet various delegations and representative of trade and Industry,” he said.