This makes it important for us to know the stories behind the stories...
A photo exhibition organised by Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders) titled Pakistan Behind the Headlines at the Arts Council attempts to do the same...
Writing in Italian meant I could escape from the tyrannies of the language (English) in which I had been forced to express myself all my life, and from the guilt of not writing in a mother tongue (Urdu) in which I lacked fluency...
For three years I immersed myself in Persian, Urdu and Seraiki and didn’t write another story until I was in my late 20s...
URDU pronunciation of some Pakistani TV channels is giving nightmares to many, though the owners and anchors of those channels may not even be aware how mercilessly they have been slaughtering our national language...
Aside from intermingling English words and phrases with their Urdu conversation, these innocent anchors mispronounce many Urdu words, sometime rendering the sentence ridiculously incorrect...
Google has recently launched its Roman Urdu to Urdu Google Keyboard (Gboard) feature for both Android and iOS...
pk's (TJ) review, Gboard’s Roman Urdu to Urdu feature is smart and accurately translates Roman Urdu text into Urdu script in real time...
In Columeau’s case, French and its Provencal dialect are his native languages, and Urdu and Punjabi the languages that he speaks with native fluency...
The cultural gulf between French and Urdu does not split the writer’s imagination, but enriches it in ways that make his work outstanding...
ISLAMABAD: World renowned classical dancer Tehreema Mitha is conventionally known to tell stories through dance, but her artwork reveals the quiet side of her character that is equally captivating and full of movement...
Her exhibition, ‘Quilting Stories of War and Peace’ was inaugurated by Austrian Ambassador Dr Brigitta Blaha at Gallery 6 on Thursday...
LONDON: Four men convicted of grooming girls for sex in a case that fuelled racial tensions in Britain face deportation to Pakistan after a judge upheld a government decision on Thursday to strip them of British citizenship...
The five victims of the gang who gave evidence in the 2012 trial were all white, and spoke of being raped, assaulted and traded for sex, being passed from man to man, and sometimes being too drunk to stop the...
Pakistan is preparing for its first census in 19 years...
Language is considered an essential tool in evaluating the makeup of multi-ethnic Pakistan — but only nine of the country's estimated 70 will be listed, to the dismay of many communities...
LONDON: A man convicted of child sexual offences in the United Kingdom in the early 2000s has been extradited from Pakistan, following a successful operation led by authorities here and in Islamabad...
The court heard that the men groomed the girls with gifts and plied them with alcohol and drugs before forcing them to have sex with others...
According to Dr Shamvil Ashraf, director for medical services at the Indus Health Network, childhood cancer survival rate in Pakistan is very dismal, though it has reached up to 80 per cent in developed countries...
“The reasons are late diagnosis that mainly results from lack of awareness and the fact that we have few good quality cancer treatment facilities in Pakistan...
Overshadowing the vast complex gurdwara of Panja Sahib, one of the most popular Sikh shrines, associated with Guru Nanak and located in the city of Hasan Abdal in Pakistan, is the tallest mound in the region, rising high above its other shorter cousins...
This year as well, when Sikh and other devotees of Nanak come to Pakistan to participate in his birthday celebrations, Gurdwara Panja Sahib will be one of the places pilgrims will be...
Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls is an inspiring collection of short biographies of hundred extraordinary women from around the globe from Elizabeth I to current trailblazers such as Serena Williams...
Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls is an ideal bedside table companion...
The title of Salman Toor’s latest exhibit at the Canvas Gallery, Short Stories, is a fitting encapsulation of the exquisite paintings on display that seem to be visual snippets of larger events, adequately self-contained as complete narratives...
Even the style is somehow reminiscent of illustrations found in children’s Urdu storybooks from school curriculums...
Whether you are reading, listening or writing a story, it is altogether a great experience of creativity and learning because stories offer your imagination infinite ways to explore the world and learn through it...
The site offers you to write stories or poetry by taking inspiration from the pictures and illustrations provided by the site it self...