The publication by Oxford of an anthology of Pakistani Urdu verse translated and edited by Yasmeen Hameed is something good that has happened to not only Urdu poetry but to Urdu itself which prides ...

Pakistani community members recently organised a programme to celebrate Urdu poetry in connection with the Pakistan National Day celebrations at Al Banush Club in Mesaieed. Prominent members of the ...

If you want to make high-brow small talk at one of President Barack Obama’s cocktail parties, don’t bother brushing up your Shakespeare. Try reading Urdu poetry. As POLITICO’s Ben Smith points out in ...

The 20th annual Aalmi Frogh-e-Urdu Adab Awards will be presented to India’s Javed Akhtar and Pakistan’s Amjad Islam Amjad by Majlis Frogh-e-Urdu Adab, a leading Qatar-based literary forum on October ...

“Jeddah has become a cradle of Urdu language and literature. The year-round mushairahs and other literary activities create headlines in journals and newspapers back in Pakistan, India and even ...

Modern Poetry of Pakistan offers many offshoots of the classical tradition of Muslim poetry in India. Although Amir Khusrau (1253-1325), considered by some to be the first poet writing in a ...

Pakistanis are familiar with Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi, a 13th century Sufi mystic, poet and Islamic scholar, as famous poets and writers in the South Asian nation had inspired by him. “Rumi has deeply ...

Indian poets have followed the footsteps of Pakistani poets when it came to writing about women but taboo subjects, such as karo-kari and divorce, are not so prevalent in India, admitted renowned ...

The fact that President Obama had good Pakistani friends at Columbia in college was one that was basically kept out of his campaign on the theory that anything with any connection to Islam would feed ...

Islamabad: A fan of cricket US President Barack Obama is an admirer of great cricket players and Urdu poets and can cook dishes such as keema and dal. "You know, I have to say that I have tried to get ...