President Mamnoon Hussain on Monday urged the need of promoting literature and literary traditions and values including poetry for the benefit of our future generations. “We should promote our languages, culture and literature so that our future generations can benefit from these values”, the President said in his concluding remarks at a ‘Mehfil-e-Mushaira’ organized as part of a series of events to mark the Pakistan Day celebrations. The President called upon the poets to highlight the national and social issues through their poetry, so that the social evils like corruption and corrupt practices could be discouraged.
