LAST year this writer had a chance to attend an international conference in Islamabad. Organised by a university, the conference was convened to discuss Pakistan’s language policy. Ironically, the ...

Saeed also cited the fact that Punjabi is the main language of the Pakistan Army and that in itself is reason to review the language situation as a mark of respect to the armed forces. Saeed mentioned ...

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Academy of Letters (PAL) has brought out a special issue of quarterly “Adbiyat” on the genre of Naat. Chairman PAL Shiraz Latif said the magazine will serve as a reference document ...

The creation of Pakistan was based on religion rather than their language and ethnicity. The two-nation theory was the founding principle of the movement to create a separate country for Muslims.

Lahore, Mar 6: Hafiz Saeed, chief of Jama’at-ud-Da’wah (JuD), a front group of banned militant outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), has questioned Pakistan’s decision to adopt Urdu as its national language ...