Khalid Jawed warns Urdu’s decline risks losing religious heritage. He critiques commercialization and literary stagnation—can ...

AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi has launched a sharp attack on West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee over the TMC’s ...

“EVERYTHING is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else,” Will Rogers once quipped. But most humourists from Karachi ...

Long confined in popular imagination to the delicate terrains of love and longing, Urdu poetry has often been misread as inward-looking, steeped in intimacy yet distant from the urgencies of the world ...

Kristin Cabot, the woman from the viral Coldplay "kiss cam" video, spoke in an exclusive interview with Oprah Winfrey about ...

The 57th Shankar Shad Mushaira held on April 4 at the Modern School on Barakhamba Road was a blend of poetic expressions from different generations, turning the gathering into a shared celebration of ...

Maybe you just need the perfect Urdu soundtrack for your villain era? If you answered yes to one or more of those questions, ...

Hyderabad: The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India has flagged wasteful expenditure of Rs 2.35 crore by the ...

Syed Shabbar Zaidi says Urdu-speaking communities should focus on education and wealth creation to regain influence, arguing ...

Actor Faiz Mohammad Khan celebrates his dual role in Dhurandhar as both actor and dialect coach. His work, focusing on ...

These stories present life — or perhaps a better word would be existence — as it is. The reference is to realism intensified by global socio-economic disparities. A debut Urdu short story collection ...

In Karachi, the Arts Council of Pakistan Karachi hosted a ceremony celebrating the life and work of US-based poet Dr Noor ...