In youth, such verses felt like exquisite escapes from the tyranny of love. But as twilight descends and age gently enters the mind’s private corridors, memory loss reveals its true face — not poetic, ...

Meticulously researched, politically astute and very juicy, this is a contemporary retelling of a case that rocked Pakistan ...

Bazm-e-Urdu Qatar (BUQ), established in 1959 to promote Urdu language and literature, hosted the launch of the poetry ...

Poetry: Spiritual and TerreneBy Syed Afsar Sajid1. ‘Luhu Lal Ghari: (Marsiye)’ by Iqtidar Javed2. ‘Bay Baal-o-Par’ by Prof.

Shahid Alam and I go back a long way, though we had both half-forgotten it until recently. He was two years senior to me at ...

Bazm-e-Urdu Qatar, the oldest literary organisation in Qatar (established in 1959), and devoted to the promotion of the Urdu language and literature, hosted the launch of the second poetry collection ...

In a recent statement reflecting on Israel’s strikes on Iran, Pakistani poet and scholar Ali Kumail Qazalbash highlighted the ...

IT is an oft-repeated lament that the glory days of the Persian language in the Indo-Pak subcontinent were over ...

The Maharashtra government has conferred its esteemed Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Puraskar for 2021 and 2022 upon Farhan Hanif Warsi, sub-editor of Mumbai Urdu News, recognising his exceptional ...

Renowned columnist and poet Ghazanfar Hashemi, who leads the World Dialogue Forum America and the International Academy of ...

A POET who rediscovered her passion after 20 years is set to release a book on her life in Kashmir and Yorkshire.

Eminent critic and writer Nasir Abbas Nayyar delivered a lecture at the Arts Council of Pakistan in Karachi on May 30, 2025, ...