EVER since her thunderous entry into the world of letters at the age of 22, Qurrat-ul-Ain Hyder, probably the greatest of the 20th century fiction writers of Urdu, has been a topic of animated ...

Discover some surprising facts about Urdu, including how much it has in common with other languages. Also available in Urdu with audio. 'I don't understand!' Learn this phrase in Urdu, as well as many ...

KARACHI: Urdu’s first online thesaurus was recently launched and in no time it has attracted the attention of many who are usually at a loss for words while communicating in the language they hold so ...

The BBC's Urdu news site, BBCurdu.com, has just been ranked the world's best Urdu website by South Asia's leading internet magazine, Spider. The March issue of Spider carried out a survey of Urdu ...

The brains behind popular comic series Kachi Goliyaan, Ramish Safa, has come up with a fun and interesting idea to teach Urdu alphabets. Fusing pop and desi culture, Safa explains the Urdu alphabet by ...

The promotion of Urdu got a major boost on Tuesday when the National Council for Promotion of Urdu Language (NCPUL) put online one million pages of writings by Ghalib, Maulana Azad, Faiz Ahmed Faiz, ...