{"id":2926,"date":"2019-03-29T18:22:57","date_gmt":"2019-03-29T18:22:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/?p=2926"},"modified":"2019-03-29T18:28:44","modified_gmt":"2019-03-29T18:28:44","slug":"fawad-appreciates-dynamic-strong-leadership-of-saudi-arabia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/fawad-appreciates-dynamic-strong-leadership-of-saudi-arabia\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan to support Saudi Arabia in promotion of culture: Fawad"},"content":{"rendered":"
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CHAUDHRY FAWAD HUSSAIN, FEDERAL MINISTER FOR INFORMATION AND BROADCASTING IN A MEETING WITH SAUDI MINISTER OF CULTURE PRINCE BADAR BIN ABDULLAH AL SAUD AT RIYADH.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n
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Islamabad;Minister for Information and Broadcasting Chaudhry Fawad Hussain Friday said Pakistan would support Saudi Arabia in promotion of culture and had offered services of Pakistani artists, calligraphers, actors and film directors for increase in its cultural activities.<\/p>\n

Talking to media here, he said Pakistan would collaborate with the new Culture Ministry of Saudi Arabia and assist it in fostering cultural activities.<\/p>\n

He said Pakistan had a 5000 years old cultural evolution and its institutions of culture were vibrant , the performing arts academies were strong and Pakistan could support Saudi Arabia in this field.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have offered to provide services of Pakistani artists, calligraphers, actors, film directors and the Saudi Minister of Culture warmly responded.\u201d<\/p>\n

He said he came to Saudi Arabia on the invitation of Saudi Culture Minister Prince Badr bin Abdullah to attend the launch of vision of his ministry.<\/p>\n

He said Prince Badr bin Abdulllah had a great relationship with Pakistan, adding since Imran Khan assumed the office of Prime Minister there was a new warmth in the relationship of Pakistan and Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n

The Crown Prince said he was ambassador of Pakistan in Saudi Arabia which showed the strength of relationship between the leadership of the two countries, he observed.<\/p>\n

During the recent tensions after the Pulwama incident, the role of Saudi Arabia was appreciable as it helped reduced tensions and Saudi Foreign Minister went to Pakistan and India and played his due role, he added.<\/p>\n

He said besides the political and strategic ties, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia were tied in bonds of culture and religion, so Saudi Arabia was keen to develop relations with Pakistan and culture would be a foundation.<\/p>\n

He told that Rahat Fateh Ali Khan held a concert in Saudi Arabia last year and now a big fair will be organized in April for the enjoyment of Pakistani community.<\/p>\n

The minister told that exchange of dramas with Arabic and Urdu dubbing will take place between the two countries. The Saudi minister had promised to take up the matter of availability of Pakistani dramas and entertainment on the flights of Saudi airlines.<\/p>\n

Fawad said the condition of visa and fees for Saudi citizens had been abolished and now they could get visa at the airport and this would help promote tourism in Pakistan.<\/p>\n

Tourism from Arab countries would be important in boosting the economy of Pakistan, he said adding Pakistani embassy in Riyadh was performing its role and would implement the visa policy which would bring more Saudi citizens to Pakistan, increasing people to people contacts.<\/p>\n

He said Pakistan established contacts with the Arab world right after independence and Saudi Arabia was among those few countries which recognized Pakistan immediately and the ties were established in 1951.<\/p>\n

The Pak-Saudi ties became strong during the period of former PM Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and now Imran Khan took the relations further, he added.<\/p>\n

The minister said in 1971, Pakistan was the third biggest film maker in the world, however unfortunately in 2005 not a single film was made, adding, \u201cNow we are reviving the cinema and presently we have 187 film screens but these are not enough.\u201d Few films were being made in Pakistan, however, Saudi Arabia and China had agreed to allow screening of Pakistani movies in their cinemas.\u201d<\/p>\n

He said Saudi Culture minister wanted cooperation of Pakistani cinema owners in setting up cinema halls in Riyadh and Jeddah.<\/p>\n

He said quality of Pakistani dramas was good and quality of films had also improved and some of them had done good business. When Pakistani films were screened alongside Indian films in local cinemas, the Pakistani films did better business.<\/p>\n

For examples, two films \u201cPunjab Nahi Jaoun Gi\u201d and \u201cTeefa in Trouble\u201d did business of Rs 520 million and Rs 460 million respectively and Indian movies were not even near them in terms of business, he explained.<\/p>\n

\u201cIndia and United States were ruling the world of cinema and Pakistan has to create its space. Unfortunately after 1971, our cinema is on decline and for the first time we have tried to get the cinema on its feet,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Fawad appreciated the two million strong Pakistani community in Saudi Arabia for its enormous contribution to economy of Pakistan as they send one fourth of the total remittances.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Islamabad;Minister for Information and Broadcasting Chaudhry Fawad Hussain Friday said Pakistan would support Saudi Arabia in promotion of culture and had offered services of Pakistani artists, calligraphers, actors and film directors for increase in its cultural activities. Talking to media here, he said Pakistan would collaborate with the new Culture Ministry of Saudi Arabia and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2927,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[91],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2926"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2926"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2929,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2926\/revisions\/2929"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}