The Sindh government Thursday established a coordination committee consisting of the arts council of the province for the promotion of arts and culture.

Arts Council of Pakistan, Karachi, President Muhammad Ahmad Shah will head the committee and its secretary will be Sukkur Arts Council President Mumtaz Bukhari.

The decision was taken at a meeting in Karachi under the chairmanship of Sindh Minister for Culture and Education Sardar Ali Shah. The presidents and secretaries of arts councils across Sindh participated in the meeting.

The presidents and secretaries of all arts councils across Sindh will be members of this committee.

The committee has been tasked to organise all the arts councils across Sindh on the pattern of Karachi’s arts council and especially the divisional headquarters, where arts councils are located. The committee will also mobilise for the promotion of culture and literature.

The meeting’s participants decided that the services rendered by Arts Council Karachi under the leadership of President Ahmad Shah in the “promotion of art, culture and literature should be implemented as a model across Sindh”.

The committee will also mobilise the councils and take steps to promote the culture and literature of Sindh.

It was decided in the meeting that the coordination committee will establish painting, theatre, and music academies in other arts councils of Sindh, where education and training will be given in various departments of arts.