Pakistan, Jan. 12 -- Education & National Heritage Minister Shafqat Mahmood will open the third edition of the two-day Afkar-e-Taza Thinkfest at Alhamra today.

The festival is being held under the auspices of Information Technology University (ITU), the Punjab Centre for Governance & Policy, which will include talks, speeches and discussions by international scholars, thinkers and opinion makers converging from around the world's leading universities. On both days, the event is open and free to the public and will continue until tomorrow (Sunday). Local Government Punjab Senior Minister Aleem Khan, former foreign ministers Hina Rabbani Khar and Khurshid Kasuri, former senator Afrasiab Khattak and lawyer Salman Akram Raja will chair diffe...