Urdu, Bangla varsity chairs urged
The delegation invited Governor Saleem Haider to visit Bangladesh.
The Bangladeshi journalists also visited the National College of Arts (NCA) and Lahore Museum.
NCA Vice Chancellor Dr Murtaza Jafri discussed with the delegation cultural and artistic exchanges between the two countries.
Lahore Museum Deputy Director Asim Rizwan briefed the journalists on the collections, particularly those representing the Gandhara and Indus Valley civilisations, Harappa and Mohenjo Daro.
The visitors were taken on a tour of the Gandhara, Jain Temple, Contemporary Paintings, Prehistoric and Industrial, and the Muslim Art and Heritage galleries. They observed rare bronze artifacts from Harappa and Mohenjo Daro, weights and bullock carts from ancient settlements and seals from the Indus Valley civilisation.
The delegation had earlier spent four days in Islamabad.
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