Khaak means dust, humble, weightless, and ever-returning to the earth. It is where all journeys end and where every beginning ...

Today I’m going around NYC’s Little Pakistan neighborhood in Brooklyn ordering halal food, chai, and all kinds of other Pakistani delicacies in Urdu, which I’ve been learning recently. It’s such a ...

The once-thriving world of Urdu-language media in India is today a shadow of its former self. From icons like Qaumi Awaaz and ...

Writer, director and performer Mahmood Farooqi is credited with reviving and popularising the art form by reaching out to a ...

Urdu is spoken by roughly 230 million people globally—largely in Pakistan and India, as well as among diaspora communities around the world.

Minister for National Heritage and Culture Division, Aurangzeb Khan Khichi has termed Urdu as a symbol of Pakistan's cultural ...

In her new book, ‘Whose Urdu is it Anyway?’, Rakshanda Jalil has translated into English 16 stories by non-Muslim writers who ...

In Bijnor, a government school principal, Mohammad Salauddin, has been suspended following accusations of religious ...

ARY Digital emerged as the leading Urdu entertainment channel on Thursday, according to exclusive data obtained by ...

Singer-songwriter Bilal Maqsood released a second volume of nursery rhymes from children’s puppet show Pakkay Dost on YouTube ...

“Urdu is a mixture of Persian, Arabic and Turkish words formed with the intermingling of invading Muslim armies and local Hindi-speaking Hindus. It’s a Turkish word which means Army camp ...