IMMEDIATELY after the creation of Pakistan, there was an overwhelming and euphoric sense of achievement and it ...

Renowned poet Iftikhar Arif said that he had not seen any other institution where so many significant cultural streams ...

The fourday annual conference organised by the Arts Council of Pakistan concluded on Sunday evening with a unanimous ...

Pakistanis like me blog and tweet in English because that is our comfort zone. Pakistani private schools, many of which were legacy British colonial institutions (or pretend to be) had a bias for ...

After so much capital has been invested in the English language in Pakistan, going back to Urdu might look strange A recent episode in which a woman hurled invectives on a security official at a toll ...

For Pakistan’s founders, Urdu was to be the glue cementing together the new country. The pre-partition Muslim League rejected suggestions that English, Hindi, or Hindustani be the official language of ...

The BBC’s new Urdu TV programme Sairbeen has built a weekly TV audience of 5.6 million since it launched on Pakistan’s Aaj News channel, a new survey has found. BBC Urdu also has the highest reach on ...

A special session titled “Jinnah and Today’s Pakistan” discussed the creation of Pakistan, the fall of Dhaka, and reflections ...

Urdu is on its way to becoming Pakistan’s official language, replacing “colonial” English, after a Supreme Court order was issued Tuesday. Three judges passed the judgment following a petition by a ...

The 18th International Urdu Conference opened in Karachi with speeches on literature, culture and global dialogue, as writers ...

When Tariq Saeed was hit by a cricket ball just above his right eye, the life of then-college student underwent a remarkable change. Up until then, Saeed wanted to play cricket, do well at it and ...

Hundreds of people migrate from the Pakistani town of Sibi, in Balochistan, to cooler places every summer as temperatures there reach 52 degrees Celsius, BBC News Urdu reports. Sibi is just one of ...