By Ajmal Khan Yousafzai
Islamabad: “H.E. Dr. Bernhard Schlagheck, Ambassador, Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany to the Islamic Republic of Pakistan’s visit to Pakistan Academy of Letters (PAL) has assured beginning of pondering upon the significant matters and possible areas of cooperation such as signing of MoU, translation of literature on reciprocal basis and many other initiatives in the field of language and literature between Pakistan and Germany”. These words were expressed by Chairman, PAL Dr. Yousuf Khushk, meritorious Prof during his meeting with H.E during his visit to PAL on 10th December, 2020.
“I really appreciate Chairman PAL’s efforts done for the promotion of literary dialogue and collaboration between Pakistan and Germany.” H.E. Dr. Bernhard Schlagheck, Ambassador after going through the presentation about PAL’s major objectives/functions and future plans.
The visit was organized to discuss the Mutual Translation and Publication of Classic/contemporary Works between Germany and Pakistan so that the ways of establishing strong relation between the writers of both the countries may be paved. The gifts of books and other souvenir were presented by Chairman PAL to the honourable guest.
The representative also visited the Academy and got pleased to know about the translations of World Literature into Urdu and other Pakistani languages from the platform of PAL and other Future Plans of PAL.
