Tag: Urdu

What are we teaching our children? While curriculum and quality of education issues have especially been highlighted since 9/11, albeit from a rather narrow perspective,...

Urdu translations of foreign books on all subjects, including philosophy and literature, have flooded books stalls in the city inciting interest and curiosity from...

Punjabi Adab Society in collaboration with Gulshan-e-Adab organized book-launching ceremony of ‘Hirakh’ by Rai Muhammed Khan Nasir at Choupaal Nasir Bagh. Sanawar Chaddhar highlighted the...

Pakistan Today caught up with Professer Shamim Hanfi and Dr Siddique-ur-Rehman Qidwai, who have come from India to take part in the three day...

The Awami National Party (ANP) opposed in the Senate on Thursday the demand of some senators to declare Urdu the official language, saying Urdu...

ISLAMABAD - Microsoft, under its project Language Interface Pack (LIP) Tuesday published Urdu version of their most wanted operating system Windows 7 and Office 2010.
This is the first time that any Microsoft operating system has been translated and released (all versions) in Urdu. Previously, Microsoft has released 64-bit Urdu version of Windows XP, Office 2003, Office 2007 and Windows Vista, said a press release issued here today.
Microsoft and their partner lauds

KARACHI - The MQM Coordination Committee on Thursday said the growing influence of terrorists belonging to the gang war, who are most active at the Burns Road and Urdu Bazaar areas among other areas of the city, is a cause of serious concern. In a statement, the committee said the gang war terrorists have been given a virtual licence to operate freely in the city and are sending extortion slips to traders, businessmen and shopkeepers without any fear of the law The city of Karachi is

LONDON - Each of William Shakespeare's 38 plays will be performed in a different language, including Arabic, Spanish and Urdu, during a theatre season in Britain to mark the London 2012 Olympic Games.
Shakespeare's Globe theatre in the British capital said Thursday it would host the special season over six weeks, beginning next year on April 23, birthday of the playwright. Among the shows that will be played are The Taming of the Shrew in Urdu, starring Pakistani television star

LAHORE - 2011's first play, Sabz, written and directed by Abdullah Farhatullah was an impressive piece, which delighted the audience. The play was a story of a two young men who were part of a cast in a small theatre play.
Their teacher (played by Farhat himself) was trying to get the theatre owner to let them get on with their play, but the owner wanted something with more (cheap) dances, to attract the audience. This the teacher did not want to incorporate. His play was based

ISLAMABAD: Senator Muhammad Khan Sherani of Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazal (JUI-F) in his official capacity as chairman of the Council of Islamic Ideology (CII) ordered his subordinate staff to switch to 'Urdu' from English language for official correspondence as he could not comprehend 'English' properly.
A source in the CII told Pakistan Today on Saturday Sherani had ordered his staff to draft summaries and official correspondence in 'Urdu'. Sherani was appointed the 13th chairman