{"id":90131,"date":"2025-11-26T06:51:36","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T01:51:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/?p=90131"},"modified":"2025-11-26T06:51:36","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T01:51:36","slug":"khalid-maqbool-siddiqui-stresses-importance-of-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/khalid-maqbool-siddiqui-stresses-importance-of-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui stresses importance of books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: Minister of Federal Education and Professional Training (FE&#038;PT) Dr Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui on Tuesday underscored the importance of books as a pathway to knowledge and long-term success. He made these remarks during address to three-day 11th National Book Festival, being held at Lok Virsa from November 25-27, where Farah Naz Akbar, Parliamentary Secretary, M\/o FE&#038;PT also participated. Dr Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui urged the participants to read book abundantly, noting, \u201cBooks are your identity, your identity is your destiny.\u201d \u201cIt is difficult to create identity without pen and book,\u201d he added. He further said that being Muslim, the first commandment of our religion is IQRA, ( Read), adding, \u201cKnowledge is the lost heritage of the believer.\u201d He recalled that our country was came into being in the name of religion, focusing, \u201cwe need to spend our live in the light of teachings of religion.\u201d \u201cThe greatest characteristic of knowledge is that the more one has, the less it seems,\u201d he added. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: Minister of Federal Education and Professional Training (FE&#038;PT) Dr Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui on Tuesday underscored the importance of books as a pathway to knowledge and long-term success. He made these remarks during address to three-day 11th National Book Festival, being held at Lok Virsa from November 25-27, where Farah Naz Akbar, Parliamentary Secretary, M\/o &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":90149,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90131"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90150,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90131\/revisions\/90150"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}