Women poets foster India-Pakistan relations

KARACHI - Women poets from India and Pakistan have gathered here in a bid to foster ties between the two countries through their verses, a media report said.

The ‘Indo-Pak Women Verse Concert’, held at the Karachi Arts Council, featured well-known poetesses from Pakistan and India, who expressed the wish to build an atmosphere of love and peace between the two nations through their poems, Geo news reported Thursday.

The concert Wednesday was presided over by prominent Pakistani poetess Adiba Kishwar Naheed and hosted by television actress Bushra Ansari.

Dignitaries and audience present at the concert later said both Pakistan and India share similar cultures, which were reflected through the verses presented by all the poets.