When Hamid Henry wrote a play about Easter for a Pakistani television channel, he struggled to present the words "Paschal" and "Eucharist" in Urdu, the national language, for his Muslim viewers.

A dual-language road sign at the Wagah border— English on top, Urdu on the bottom— speaks louder than words. It demonstrates that English in Pakistan isn’t a foreign artifact but an operational ...

In Pakistan, debates about education tend to orbit around crumbling school buildings, lack of funds, outdated curricula, and an exam system that rewards memory over meaning. Beneath these familiar ...

Arthur Dudney receives funding from the Leverhulme Trust. Views expressed are his own. For a country seven decades old, Pakistan is dealing with a surprisingly fundamental political and cultural ...

KARACHI: The 41st Society of Pakistan English Language Teachers (SPELT) International Conference 2025, under the theme ‘Future-Ready ELT: Innovation, Diversity and Sustainability’, opened ...

Pakistan's national language is Urdu as well as its official language. Lots of people speak English thanks to the country's colonial past, and until recently it was even an official language too.