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Workshop on IDNs for local content development in Pakistani languages
   
Overview

National IT Development and Promotional Unit (NIDU) under the Ministry of Information Technology organized the workshop on IDNs for local content development in Pakistani languages at FAST-NUCES, Lahore from May 15th - 16th 2009.

The purpose of this meeting was to provide a platform for the discussion of policy and standardization issues relating to internationalizing domain names in Pakistani languages. Participants from various language communities were invited to provide suggestions and share ideas on conclusions drawn in the previously held workshop. The objectives of the workshop were as follows:

(i) Characters required to represent each language.

(ii) Confusable characters within a language, and across languages.

(iii) Choice of digits (Latin and/or Perso-Arabic).

(iv) Label separator and character separator (dash vs. dot, ZWNJ vs. hyphen) for domain       names.

(v) IDN ccTLD string for Pakistan (e.g. پاکستان، پاک، etc.) and gTLD translations .
 
   
Guests  

  Name Organization  
  Dr. Qasim Bughio University of Sindh  
  Dr. Imdad Ali Ismaili

University of Sindh
  Dr. Muhammad Abid University of Peshawar
  Mr. Wahid Buzdar

Balochi Academy
  Mr. Zaman Sagar

Frontier Language Institute
  Dr. Taj Joyo

Sindhi Language Authority
  Dr. Alamdar Hussain Bukhari Saraiki Department, Bahauddin Zakriya University
  Mr. Kamran Ali

Balochistan University of Information and Management Sciences
  Dr. Muhammad Afzal Dr. A.Q. Khan Institute of Computer Sciences and Information Technology , Kahuta
  Mr. Shakeel Ahmad Pakistan Software Export Board
  Mr. Arif Aslam Kundi Ministry of IT and Telecom  
  Mr. Syed Iftikhar Hussain Ministry of IT and Telecom
  Mr. Adnan Saeed Ministry of IT and Telecom
  Mr. Mohammad Abul Fazal Ministry of IT & Telecom
  Dr. Atash Durrani National Language Authority
  Mr. Humayun Qureshi UIT, Karachi
  Mr. Hafiz Safwan PTCL
     
  From within Lahore    
  Name Organization  
  Dr. Khawer Zia Beaconhouse National University
  Dr. Irfanullah Chaudhary University of Engineering and Technology
  Dr. Shafay Shamail LUMS, Lahore
  Dr. Sarmad Hussain CRULP, FAST-NUCES
  Mr. Abbas Najmi Punjab Institute of Language, Art and Culture
  Dr. Saleem Malik University of the Punjab
  Dr. J. S. Mirza COMSATS, Lahore
  Mr. M. Noman Chishti Iqbal, Academy
  Ms. Tehseen Zahra Urdu Science Board