I wrote a piece a few days ago, about how nasty Pakistan’s Urdu media is. That nastiness is one aspect of it, but there exists another aspect. There is a very attractive bilingual quality to the urban ...

KARACHI: Dominance of English is impeding the development of Urdu and other languages in Pakistan. Poet Iftikhar Arif said this while presiding over a session, 'Languages and Society of Pakistan', on ...

TWO books published recently have some similarities, but they are different, too. Both of them are, in fact, PhD dissertations; both are on Pakistani Urdu short story and both have been written by ...

MatnSaz modern Urdu keyboard app now available on Google Play Store, reducing 39 keys to 21 with advanced autocorrect.

That the two founding figures of Indian and Pakistani independence were united by a shared love of Urdu speaks eloquently of the language’s rich history. From left, Pandit Jawarharlal Nehru, Vice ...

The National Language Authority (NLA), or Muqtadira Qaumi Zaban, was established in 1979 under Article 251 of the 1973 Constitution. The main objective was to pave the way for adoption of Urdu as ...

Mohammed Hanif says Pakistani authorities have seized the Urdu translation of his bestselling novel A Case of Exploding Mangoes. The British-Pakistani journalist and author said a group of people ...