Federal Minister for Education, Professional Training & National Heritage Shafqat Mahmood has stated that the National Culture Policy is being drafted for the first time in the country which will help to standardise the culture related work. This National culture policy will also be valuable to ascend the tourism sector of the country. He said this in a meeting with the delegation of British Council, led by Mr. Adrian Chadwick the regional Director for South ASIA.
Mr Mahmood has said that the Karachi National Museum, which manifests the Gandhara civilization, will be uplifted to the international standards and Karachiites would feel proud on this state of the art museum. British Council will provide technical help in capacity building of the staff in this regard.
Federal Minister also apprised the British council about setting-up an autonomous institution of National Accreditation Council which would revamp the entire certification regime after evaluating the Technical educational vocational Training Institutions.
British Council also presented an invitation of culture &
Heritage festival to Mr. Mahmood which is being held in Edinburgh from 22-24 August this year, and large number of culture ministers across the world are participating in it.
The meeting was marked by traditional warmth, mutual understanding and trust.
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