It may come as a surprise to many that Urdu is not already the official language of Pakistan, given that in its spoken form, it is the lingua franca of the country and understood by virtually everyone ...

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Urdu-language maxims adorn a school in the Swat Valley, Pakistan. EPA/Bilawal Arbab For a country seven decades old, Pakistan is dealing with a surprisingly fundamental political and cultural problem: ...

Habib R. Sulemani introduces us to some of the new faces of Pakistan excelling English literature and thinks that English should be declared a national language along with other Pakistani languages.

“Language is only one thing. Along with it, one also needs to use idioms and illustrations that can be understood by the local people,” he says. The challenge is to think and present the Biblical ...

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