CHAPTER 18 - CULTURE

Pakistan's Cultural heritage needs to be understood, preserved and promoted to maintain our cultural identity. To ensure an organic relationship between culture and development. We will provide conducive environment for the growth and promotion of Pakistani Culture. In order to fulfill this pledge the party will undertake the following objectives:

• To preserve Pakistan's cultural heritage in all fields such as literature, architecture, sports, music, dance folklore, artifacts, performing arts, painting, crafts, movies, telephone broadcasting and other fields related culture.

• To provide a free and healthy environment for the promotion of all cultural activities at different levels of society.

• To channelize the thoughts and aspirations of our artists, intellectuals, musicians, singers, poets, writers, artisans, architects, stage and film and film artists, dancers, and other related with cultural activities towards the process of national integration.

• To provide appropriate forums for training, education and performance of different cultural activities and performing arts at various levels.

• To eradicate the culture of violence, intolerance and fanaticism through education and legislation.

• To develop multi-media and improve the entertainment programmes, opening up new channels and introducing latest technologies in articulating Pakistan's cultural activities on various forums.

• To seek a balance between our spiritual cultural and its material dimensions.

• To inculcate quest for inquiry and research in application of modern technology to our social and economic needs through critical thinking and constructive reasoning.

• To highlight and develop the principles laid down by Islam and the founding father of Pakistan in the promotion of our culture.

To ensure a healthy interaction with other cultures through cultural exchange programmes, exhibitions, and international moots, especially in South Asia.

LITERATURE

The rich heritage of Pakistani literature has not been fully disseminated within the country as well as abroad. We will undertake the following steps in order to promote literature:

• Literature in all languages of Pakistan will be encouraged, published and disseminated.

• Under the auspices of the Academy of Letters an ambitious plan of translating literature in Pakistani languages, national language and in the languages of the United Nations will be printed and through foreign missions and UNESCO its dissemination will be made possible.

• Literary seminars will be held in order to highlight relationship between literature, democracy and culture.

• A pool for endowment will be created to help those literary figures who need assistance for publication of their works.

• Special Literary Awards will be instituted to honour distinguished writers.

• Non-governmental literary societies will be encouraged, patronized and supported in order to ensure healthy exchange of ideas at all levels.

LANGUAGES

All languages of Pakistan deserves to be properly placed in the realm of our linguistic traditions. Therefore to achieve this objective following steps will be taken:

• Various languages spoken in Pakistan such as Pashto, Baluchi, Brahvi, Punjabi, Seraiki, Dardic, Kashmiri, etc., will be development and documented.

• A healthy relationship will be encouraged between these languages and the national language of Pakistan.

• A linguistic survey of Pakistan will be commissioned which will be completed by the Academy of Letters in order to give proper recognition to various linguistic groups.

• Literature produced in the Pakistani languages will be preserved, printed and disseminated through the help of various literary societies as well as the Academy of Letters.

• A scientific process of teaching languages at various levels of instruction will be maintained.

• A comprehensive catalogue of linguistic developments and their relationship with culture and ethnicity will be compiled.