Tag: Punjabi

The Nescafe basement famed Abdullah Qureshi has released his new single titled 'Kali Santro' (Black Santro) as he takes a trip down memory lane. The reason...

QUETTA: Six labourers from Punjab employed by a private telecommunication company in Kharan district in Balochistan were gunned down on Thursday night by unidentified assailants. The...

LAHORE: Representatives of nearly a dozen organisations on Friday organised a one-day hunger strike in Lahore to protest the discrimination against Punjabi language. Addressing the...

  Congratulating the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz on its big win, Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) chief Altaf Hussain called the Nawaz Sharif-led party which has so...

Actor and reality star Veena Malik says 2012 has been a year lucky for her. She is doing six movies back-to-back, that include The...

Two boxers from Punjab threw in the towel before their opponents from the University of Karachi (KU) on Tuesday to save their lives during the...

Punjab University Punjabi Adabi Majlis, Department of Punjabi, on Tuesday celebrated World Mother Tongue day and organised a ceremony “Jagat Maa Boli Dehar” at...

In the age of enlightenment and full of knowledge explosion, a library (both physical and virtual) holds central position in every part of the...

Punjabi politicians always criticised the Awami National Party (ANP) and termed it as an Indian agent but in fact the party has always been...

Calling upon the intellectuals to highlight the need of harmony through their writings, poets at a Punjabi mushaira on Tuesday said similar events were...

At a time when the world has evolved into a global village and usage of English language in Pakistan is putting the non-English speaking...

It is unfortunate to see the stigma attached to one of the most beautiful of the languages on the planet i.e. Punjabi. To the...

The wife of a militant killed in the attack on a Naval airbase in Karachi has said that Punjabi Taliban were involved in the...

Filmmaker-turned-actor Farhan Akhtar is playing the title role in Rakesh Omprakash Mehra’s ‘Bhaag Milkha Bhaag’, for which he needs to speak chaste Punjabi. To...

‘Anhey Gorhey da Daan’ (Alms of the Blind Horse) a film in Punjabi directed by Gurvinder Singh and based on the novel of the...

Hundreds of people attended the All Punjab Punjabi Spring Mushaira held by a local non-governmental organisation in collaboration with a private college on Tuesday...

LAHORE - Eminent scholar Dr Syed Akhtar Hussain Akhtar died of a heart attack on Tuesday. He was 73.
Dr Akhtar Hussain was born on May 3, 1937, in a small village in district Dir and Pashto was his mother tongue. But once he shifted to Lahore, he took on Punjabi and excelled in it to an extent that he did his doctorate in the language. His topic was 'Var', which in Punjabi poetry is a heroic ode or ballad that generally narrates legends such as stories of Punjabi folk heroes or