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In a video clip circulating on social media, former One Direction member Zayn Malik playfully sang a short phrase in Urdu ...

For those willing to start to explore this poetic world, even the mention of classical poets like Mirza Ghalib and Allama ...

IS literature losing its lure in 21st Century? Do most of our new researchers and critics lack in basic understanding of finer aspects of Urdu’s syntax and morphology? Do most young researchers ...

The signboards along the Srinagar-Leh (NH-1), currently written in English and Hindi, will soon feature names in Urdu as well ...

resisting the Pakistan government's bid to declare Urdu as the state language by omitting Bangla. For all latest news, follow The Daily Star's Google News channel. Despite the strong influence of ...

It was Rasheed Hasan Khan (1925-2006 — his dates of birth and death mentioned online are usually incorrect) who through his book Urdu Imla (1974) made the issues related to Urdu orthography ...

Before returning to Pakistan, he spoke with SBS Urdu about the potential of young male and female athletes, announcing that the top two performers in the coming Asian Championship will be invited ...