A meeting of writers, poets, lawyers and academicians of the city was organised under the aegis of Iqbal Academy Allahabad, to protest against the decision of the authorities of Union Public Service Commission to remove Arabic, Persian and Pali from its scheme of examinations. The meeting was chaired by SMA Kazmi, former advocate general UP and conducted by Prof AA Fatmi.

SH Akhtar, general secretary of All India Associations of Arabic teachers and scholars, while condemning this decision of UPSC, termed it very unfortunate as by removing these languages from UPSC, weaker section of minority community will be deprived of the opportunity to serve the nation as civil servants. MA Qadeer, senior advocate Allahabad High Court said that these languages were a part of the country and should not be removed fro the UPSC examinations.

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Courtesy: The Times of India