Arthur Dudney receives funding from the Leverhulme Trust. Views expressed are his own. For a country seven decades old, Pakistan is dealing with a surprisingly fundamental political and cultural ...

It may come as a surprise to many that Urdu is not already the official language of Pakistan, given that in its spoken form, it is the lingua franca of the country and understood by virtually everyone ...

The National Language Authority (NLA), or Muqtadira Qaumi Zaban, was established in 1979 under Article 251 of the 1973 Constitution. The main objective was to pave the way for adoption of Urdu as ...

This post is part of our special coverage Languages and the Internet. Pakistan today would seem primed for rapid growth in internet use. The country has had explosive growth of FM radio, satellite and ...