KARACHI: Stressing how it is the ‘job of the mother’ to teach Urdu to her kids, Urdu poet based in the United States (US), Ishrat Afreen, lamented how Pakistani families based abroad are not teaching ...

LAHORE: After writing critically acclaimed novels, including the poignant Between Clay and Dust (2012), Pakistani-Canadian author Musharraf Ali Farooqi is embarking upon a new project that aims at ...

SOME 20 years ago, Masood Ahmed Barkati (1933-2017) informed this scribe that Naunehal’s circulation had gone down, almost by half. Barkati Sahib had edited Naunehal, one of the most popular magazines ...

INTERNATIONAL Children’s Book Day is observed every year in the first week of April. It coincides with Hans Christian Andersen’s birthday, as Andersen is considered one of the greatest writers of ...

Ms Lubna brings her three children every week to the Urdu language school in Preston (New South Wales) to help them learn and communicate in Urdu. “I want my kids to learn Urdu as it is our language," ...