THE Supreme Court ruling to adopt and implement Urdu as the official language has left the elite class of the country feeling uneducated. English being the lingua franca of the land has the undivided ...

PESHAWAR: The Peshawar High Court on Tuesday served notices to federal government through Ministry of Law and Parliamentary Affairs and chief secretary Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa on a writ seeking the court’s ...

KARACHI: Linguists, writers, poets and teachers of Urdu language urged upon the public to demand that the power corridors implement Urdu as the official language of Pakistan on Thursday. The ...

Thirty-five years after Uttar Pradesh (UP) adopted Urdu as its second official language, chief minister Yogi Adityanath’s speech in the state assembly has revived the contentious issue over the ...

The abrogation of Article 370 in Kashmir marked the end of Urdu as the only official language, a status it enjoyed for 131 years. Making any language official is always complex and political in nature ...

ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Tuesday directed federal and provincial governments to adopt Urdu as official language in the country. Announcing the verdict on petition filed by Advocate Kokab Iqbal, ...

The percentage of Urdu-speaking population in Telangana has increased to 12.69% of the total population in the state. Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao(PTI File Photo) The state has a ...