KARACHI: The Urdu Dictionary Board has merged its 22 volume Urdu dictionary into two volumes to make an abridged dictionary. The new book also includes many new words and has added vernacular ...

ISLAMABAD: Nations that document their cultural history have nothing to fear from foreign cultural invasion, said President Mam­noon Hussain at the launch of the Urdu dictionary’s web edition on ...

KARACHI: Urdu’s first online thesaurus was recently launched and in no time it has attracted the attention of many who are usually at a loss for words while communicating in the language they hold so ...

In a time where the adage 'there are no free dinners' is a social norm and not an academic concept, anything that comes for free is a welcome change. So when Ali Mozaffar Jafry and Azad Qalamdar, two ...

An image from a winter morning in Hyderabad, Pakistan, when I was four, forms my earliest memory of literacy. Bundled up in layers of sweaters, I am reciting from an Urdu newspaper as I sit astride my ...

NEW DELHI: Aspiring English poets have multiple online resources telling them how to write a sonnet, haiku or limerick but those aspiring to pen Urdu verse have just the Qaafiya Dictionary to help ...