Tag: Urdu
President for promotion of Urdu language in every field
ISLAMABAD: President Dr Arif Alvi on Thursday underscored the importance of national language for unity and solidarity of the nation.
He expressed these views during...
First-ever Urdu software to detect grammatical errors to be launched by...
ISLAMABAD: The first-ever Urdu software titled “Harf Kaar” with an advanced programme of detecting and correcting grammatical errors and anomalies in Urdu diction and...
Senate committee directs 30 ministries, divisions to correspond in Urdu: report
ISLAMABAD: The Senate Functional Committee on Less Developed Areas ordered 30 divisions and ministries to start corresponding in Urdu because some committee members cannot read English,...
SU orders for campus signboards to be in Sindhi and English:...
KARACHI: The University of Sindh (SU) on Tuesday issued a notification to convert all signboards and building titles within its campuses to English and...
Senate body approves status of provincial languages equal to Urdu
ISLAMABAD: Senate Standing Committee on Law and Justice on Thursday passed the Constitution (Amendment) Bill, 2016 (Substitution of Article 251) calling for giving the status...
President Mamnoon launches first ever digital Urdu dictionary
ISLAMABAD: President Mamnoon Hussain on Wednesday, terming Urdu dictionary the biggest treasure of Pakistan’s literary history, said its digitalisation had preserved a thousand-year-old culture...
President seeks revival of Urdu as medium of education across the...
KARACHI: President Mamnoon Hussain here on Saturday inaugurated the Urdu Bagh Complex (Urdu Garden Complex), a project of Anjuman-e-Tarraqi-e-Urdu (Union for promotion of Urdu),...
CM congratulates new office bearers of “Dareecha” in Lahore
LAHORE: Punjab Chief Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif has congratulated famous columnist and presidential award winning Seerat writer, Asghar Ali Javed over his selection as secretary of...
Book reading, blogs to be promoted to bridge country’s ‘intellectual deficit’
KARACHI: Senior journalists and scientists, at the one-day seminar “Blog writing for science promotion, and use of Urdu in media” held at the International Centre...
MQZ DG summoned in implementation of Urdu as official language case
LAHORE: The Lahore High Court (LHC) has summoned Muqtadra Qaumi Zaban (MQZ) Director General (DG) on the petitions seeking implementation of Urdu as the official...
‘Political will, bureaucrats major hurdle in adoption of Urdu as official...
ISLAMABAD: Political will and bureaucrats are the main obstacles in the implementation of Urdu language as an official language, Academy of Letters Director General...
Funeral prayers performed for Bano Qudsia
The funeral prayers for iconic novelist and playwright Bano Qudsia were offered today after Asar prayers in Model Town E block. She will be laid...
Committee prepares recommendations for implementation of Urdu as official language
Special committee set up by Punjab Chief Minister Shehbaz Sharif for implementation of orders of Supreme Court to introduce Urdu at government level in...
SC to hear contempt petitions against PM for not notifying Urdu...
The Supreme Court of Pakistan will soon take up two contempt petitions against Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif for not notifying Urdu as the national...
Urdu as official language: minister says use simple words to ensure...
In enforcing Urdu as an official language at government offices, simple and easy to comprehend words should be used so that the common people...
Pakistan to implement Urdu as official language, says minister
Ahsan Iqbal says switching from English to Urdu does not mean that the prior would be abandoned entirely and would still be taught in schools along with Urdu.
Show us the Urdu, where’s the progress? asks SC
The Supreme Court (SC) has sought a report from the federal government by July 2, 2015, on the steps taken to make Urdu the...
