POSTCOLONIAL discourse is not anything new: back in 1978 with the publication of Edward Said’s book Orientalism ...

Carla Faye Radloff (1949-2012), a famed American linguist, in whose memory the anthology of essays titled ‘Languages of Northern Pakistan’ has been compiled and published, was a career member of SIL ...

A 12-member delegation comprising of female students and faculty members of Al-Azhar, Egypt (Urdu department) on Thursday visited Allama Iqbal Open University (AIOU) and showed a keen interest in ...

As Urdu was not the mother language of the people of the area now called Pakistan, this study of Urdu as the language of South Asian Islam will take us to north India, the home of Urdu, and the ...

Under new programme for inclusion of e assessment after Urdu to educate Middle Years Programme (MYP), will be huge beneficiary for students as they will study under language acquisition while only sit ...

Hyderabad: Urdu is a Lashkari (mixed dialect). It is a Persianised standard register of Hindustani language. It has 30 consonants, 20 vowels, two diphthongs; non-tonal; stress being on the penultimate ...

Julien Columeau’s explicit prose finds inspiration in Pakistan’s iconic 20 th century poets. Frenchman Julien Columeau came to Pakistan at the age of 30 as a humanitarian worker—but a knack for ...