Pakistan News: Pakistan's influential Urdu press has come down heavily on the way Islamabad was kept out of loop on the US operation that killed Osama bin Laden.

Urdu language facts. Discover some surprising facts about Urdu, including how much it has in common with other languages. Also available in Urdu with audio.

Let us state some real facts. Urdu, is first and foremost, an Indian language. Urdu was never spoken in the those parts of India, which is now current day Pakistan, ...

In Urdu, the gemination (or ‘tashdeed’) over the second letter of the word was dropped to make the pronunciation easier. In Arabic, it means, literally, “cutting”.

On the poet’s 222nd birth anniversary, here are a few facts about Mirza Ghalib. 1. Ghalib married the daughter of Nawab Ilahi Bakhsh, Umrao Begum, when he was just 13-years-old, following which ...

ISLAMABAD: The Urdu translation of the “Basic Facts about the United Nations” was officially launched on Monday at Quaid-i-Azam University, in an event coinciding with UN Day.