Chandigarh: The Punjab University (PU), Chandigarh’s proposal to merge the Urdu Department with the foreign language departments has snowballed into a major controversy. The university recently ...

Hyderabad: Urdu is a Lashkari (mixed dialect). It is a Persianised standard register of Hindustani language. It has 30 consonants, 20 vowels, two diphthongs; non-tonal; stress being on the penultimate ...

Showcasing BBC News Urdu’s network of correspondents, Jahan Numa brings global and regional news stories to serve its diverse ...

Imran Khan says he will give the date of the real freedom march soon. Foreign minister Bilawal Bhutto is in quarantine after meeting with visiting German counterpart who found COVID positive. Despite ...

Former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan, center, arrives to the Islamabad High Court surrounded by security, in Islamabad, Pakistan, Monday, Oct. 3, 2022. The court on Monday accepted Khan's ...