The publication of this novel is a transgressive event in the world of letters in Pakistan. The novel successfully blurs the boundaries between time and space, fiction and nonfiction, poetry and prose, social facts and historiography. The surface story in this......

Punjabi, the language of the majority province, is dying rapidly but neither the government nor the Punjabis themselves are bothered. Punjabi families are willingly giving up the language of their forefathers. They feel proud to speak Urdu with their children as ...

LAST week Karachi hosted the Teachers’ Literature Festival — an innovative experiment — to introduce an alternative discourse in education. Here a lively session on language in learning was held. That teachers should be interested in this is understandable.. ...

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 undivided India. Instead, it wanted Urdu (Pirpur Report, 1938) ....

ISLAMABAD: The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (Unesco) is of the opinion that Urdu being the dominant language in the multi-ethnic society through the school system is a choice of necessity but has frequently been a source of grievances....

An article entitled 'Panjab kee madree zubaan Urdu hay' (Urdu is the
mother tongue of Panjab) appeared as an 'idartee' essay in the 19th
February 2004 issue of daily Nawa-i-Waqt (second in a list of three
editorial essays at the link shown below.....

LAHORE: A large number of activists staged a demonstration on Sunday in front of Lahore Press Club and took out a rally demanding that the government declare Punjabi language a compulsory subject from primary to graduation. ...

ISLAMABAD: Ali Ahmed Qamar is a writer from Gilgit-Baltistan, who has written two books in the Balti and Potohari languages. In 2010, he submitted both to the Pakistan Academy of Letters (PAL) to be considered for the Kamal-e-Fun award. .....

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In contrast, there are two Sikh Cabinet ministers in the Modi government — Maneka Gandhi, who is a Sikh by birth....

There are always certain milestones of historic dimensions, which go unrecorded and buried under heaps of sand over a period of time. Many times such milestones remain buried forever. One such milestone concerns the evolution of East Punjab’s first television station, ...