Urdu has been a controversial language in Pakistan despite its official and holy status. The Bengalis rejected it way back in the 1940s when Jinnah, advised by a bureaucracy, with imperial moorings ...

KARACHI: The irresponsible use of words, such as tsunami and drone attack, has not only crippled our political system but it has butchered the Urdu language as well. Scholar Arfa Sayeda Zehra noted, ...

When Urdu journalism is celebrating 200 years of its existence, it seems to be perhaps the best opportunity to clear some myths and misconceptions about Urdu. Urdu was born and flourished in India.

After reading some interesting analyses of the dominance of the Hindi-belt in India, I thought about my work on culture, language, and politics, specifically the decay of Urdu litearure in ...

If you feel Urdu language needs revival in India, Sanjiv Saraf, the founder of Rekhta foundation counters by saying that the interest in the language is growing robust by every passing day. Read the ...

ISLAMABAD: The federal government is taking several steps to implement Urdu as an official language in all government departments under Article 251 of the Constitution. In this regard, the Ministry of ...

Although Urdu is Pakistan’s national language, an interesting debate that often resurfaces is that the native speakers of Urdu hardly constitute 10 per cent of Pakistan’s population. Prof Fateh ...

“Urdu is a mixture of Persian, Arabic and Turkish words formed with the intermingling of invading Muslim armies and local Hindi-speaking Hindus. It’s a Turkish word which means Army camp, hoard, etc.” ...

The once-thriving world of Urdu-language media in India is today a shadow of its former self. From icons like Qaumi Awaaz and Roznama Rashtriya Sahara to lesser-known weeklies, many publications that ...