WITH serious knife, gun and general crime on the up and up and police resources seemingly stretched to the limit, I find the news that officers are being diverted from their duties to learn Urdu ...

Pakistan is dropping English as its official language and switching to Urdu, a popular language in the Indian subcontinent. The long-rumored change was confirmed by Pakistani Minister of Planning, ...

If you are a native English speaker, Japanese, Chinese, Arabic and Korean are the toughest languages to learn - taking an average of 2200 hours to reach a certain proficiency level. In comparison, ...

“The textbook tale that British colonial rule in the subcontinent harmed the development of Urdu is false,” Dr Tariq Rehman, Dean of School of Education at Beaconhouse National University, said in a ...