EVERY year, Sept 30 is commemorated as International Translation Day...
The ritual began in 1991 when International Federation of Translators (IFT) began officially celebrating the day to show unity with the translators of the world and to promote translation as a dignified activity...
KASUR: A would-be groom, along with around hundred guests, had to leave a wedding hall without the Nikah ceremony on Sunday after they failed to establish before its administration that the girl to become bride was not a minor...
Wedding hall owner Muhammad Ahmed told Dawn that when the family failed to produce any evidence of girl’s age they were asked to vacate the venue without performing Nikah ceremony...
The protesters, led by Waryam Mahar, Sarang Mahar and Tahir Hussain Mahar, told the media that feudal lords of the area including Mir Mohammed Mahar, Buland Mahar, Sahibo Mahar and Sajan Mahar, were forcing them to hand over a 10-year-old girl, Bachal, to an elderly man by solemnising their Nikah...
LONDON: The UK government is working on an amendment in the Marriage Act to make unregistered Nikah ceremonies a criminal offence...
According to the green paper, a prayer leader who participates in a Sharia-compliant religious ceremony (Nikah) can face prosecution if he does not ensure the couple has already registered their marriage legally beforehand or on the same day of the Nikah with the local registrar office...
The nikah of Pervaizan Khatoon with Qadroo Bugti was solemnised in Naar Minor village and the wedding party was heading towards the groom’s village via Tangwani...
However, the groom escaped from the spot and members of the wedding party strongly resisted the police action maintaining that it was a legitimate nikah and police could not intervene...
In the cacophony, the simple truth got waylaid: Shahid Afridi had tried to be grandiloquent in an alien language — English...
Like author Roald Dahl’s Big Friendly Giant — that 24-foot-tall, loveable ogre who blithely mouthed incorrect English because he never went to school — Afridi, world cricket’s fading giant, might as well be saying, “What I think and what I say are two different things...
PESHAWAR: The elementary and secondary education department has planned to train 83,000 primary schools teachers to use English as the medium of instruction...
The relevant officials told Dawn on Tuesday that scores of primary schoolteachers had been struggling to do duty since the medium of instruction was changed from Urdu to English two years ago...
An English medium school in Sahiwal, run and owned by an apparently educated politician’s family, provides us with a new mind-blowing description of what constitutes foul language that unmistakably shows us why our education system is in an abysmal state despite all the tall claims of businessmen-turned-educators...
The school’s circular, dated 22-08-2016, addressed to the parents of its students which surfaced recently on social...
Tens of thousands of London private hire drivers could lose their licenses due to new English reading and writing requirements, taxi app Uber said on Tuesday at the start of a court battle to halt the plans...
Uber launched legal action in August after public body Transport for London (TfL) said that drivers should have to prove their ability to communicate in English, including to a standard of reading and writing which Uber says is...
The process of nativisation of English language writing in India had started even before the Partition through writers and poets like Raja Rao, Sarojini Naidu and Tagore and that continued after the creation of new states...
The poets like Nissim Ezekiel and A K Ramajuman made their contributions right after the Partition for decolonisation of English language and the poets from later generations like Arun Kolatkar, Dom Moraes, Kamala...
BT debate, these people recently triggered a brand new debate, that of Good Language and Bad Language...
However, some folks refused to criticise Asif for using bad language against a fellow parliamentarian...
KARACHI: Novelist, columnist and short story writer Zaheda Hina, considered by many to be one of the most pivotal voices to have emerged from Pakistan, was present at the IBA on Thursday where the recently published English translation of her short stories, The House of Loneliness, was launched...
”Aamer Hussein, having translated Hina’s stories, had flown in from London to speak about the process of emulating the superiority of the...
KARACHI: Speakers at the launch of a book discussing the effects of religion and secularism in making of Pakistan on Sunday said it raised certain basic questions involving the country carved out of the British India 70 years ago and the state that was still fluid to answer those critical issues...
The Urdu translation Tashkeel-i-Pakistan, mazhab aur secularism was launched at the Arts Council of Pakistan Karachi...
Translation is a thankless job: if you translate well, the credit goes to the original writer and you get a bit of praise, if at all...
And if translation does not go well, as often is the case, a debate entails that questions the very utility of translation business and the “value and pleasure of reading it in the original”, not to mention the wrath that a translator earns...
KARACHI: A highly critical French work on the history of Urdu has been published for the first time in the Urdu language by the Pakistan Study Centre of Karachi University (KU), it emerged on Monday...
Titled Tareekh Adabiat-i-Urdu, the book was researched by Orientalist scholar Garcin De Tassy and initially published in the French language in 1870-71 in three editions...