LITERARY NOTES: A history of naat in Urdu, its research and criticism
NAAT is an Arabic word and it means, literally, praise...
In Urdu, naat means the praise of Prophet Hazrat Muhammad (PBUH)...
NAAT is an Arabic word and it means, literally, praise...
In Urdu, naat means the praise of Prophet Hazrat Muhammad (PBUH)...
ISLAMABAD: Starting on Wednesday, the National Assembly will open its daily session with a Naat recitation...
While presenting the motion, Mr Safdar stated that love for Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) was a part of every Muslim’s faith and mandatory recitation of Naat would add to the respect of the house...
Organised by a university, the conference was convened to discuss Pakistan’s language policy...
Neither were these foreigners, albeit scholars, experts on Pakistan’s history or culture and yet they actively participated in the debates, discussing what should be Pakistan’s language policy...
ISLAMABAD: The Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) members of the National Assembly on Tuesday sought to make reciting of ‘Naat’ mandatory in the house...
Proposing amendment to rule numbers 48, 69 and 112 of the Rules and Procedure and Conduct of the National Assembly, MQM MNA Sheikh Salahuddin said reciting of Naat followed by recitation of the Holy Quran on daily basis should be made part of the rules...
KARACHI: The 30th Bain-ul-Madaris Naat Competition-2015 is being organised in a hotel here on June 27...
The competition will be hosted by the Pakistan Crescent Youth Organisation...
ISLAMABAD: Foreign Minister Khawaja Muhammad Asif on Thursday said that Pakistan’s interests could not be sacrificed for the sake of American interests...
“Unlike past, we would not, under any circumstances, act as a US proxy...
The Foreign Office on Saturday rejected Indian army chief General MM Naravane's recent comments in which he levelled terrorism allegations and hurled threats against Pakistan...
In an interview to Indian media outlets earlier this week, Naravane had alleged that Pakistan has created a "new terror group" in Indian-occupied Kashmir called 'The Resistance Front'...
The announcement comes just a week after Netflix went live in more than 130 countries including Pakistan...
BEIJING: The United States (US) and Russia must not allow the conflict in Syria to develop into a full-blown proxy war, China's ruling Communist Party said Tuesday, chiding both Moscow and Washington for having an outdated Cold War mindset...
"People shouldn't allow the Syrian conflict to escalate into a full-scale proxy war, or lightly give up on efforts to find a political solution to the Syrian crisis and cannot permit the Syrian...
PESHAWAR: While praising sacrifices of the Pakistan Army and Zarb-e-Azb’s “disruptive effect on terrorists” in North Waziristan Agency, US Ambassador Richard Olson has said that it is time proxy wars in South Asia come to an end...
“I think the era of proxy war in South Asia should come to an end,” said Ambassador Olson, adding that they should end regardless of who was behind such wars in the region...
But being Muslim, I also want to fulfil our Islamic obligation which is where such services come in as a blessing,” Shahid Ali Khan, one customer of sacrificing by proxy told Dawn...
THE Indonesian Military (TNI) has become increasingly obsessed with selling the idea that Indonesia is in the midst of a “proxy war”...
COAS General Gatot Nurmantyo has led this charge since 2014, when he travelled around the country to speak about how Indonesia was in the middle of a proxy war...
STOCKHOLM: Nobel literature laureate Bob Dylan will provide a speech and fellow American singer-songwriter Patti Smith will perform one of his best-known songs in his absence during Stockholm’s prize celebrations, the awards body said on Monday...
Smith will perform ‘A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall’ at the Nobel banquet on Dec 10 while Dylan’s speech would also be read out at the event, the Nobel Prize organisers said on TwitterPOISONED toothpaste that takes a month to end its target’s life...
Armed dronesISLAMABAD: While giving a policy statement in the National Assembly, Foreign Minister Khawaja Asif said on Friday that Pakistan would not serve as a proxy for the United States in any war...
The foreign minister said people of Afghanistan and other Muslim countries often wanted Pakistan to take part in the wars fought within their borders...