Join three contributors to the just-released anthology Modern Poetry of Pakistan for readings and a discussion of the variety and richness of contemporary Pakistani poetry at 7:00 pm on May 3, at the ...

ISLAMABADISLAMABAD — The outrage was swift after Pakistani security forces shot dead an unarmed young man in the southern city of Karachi, an incident caught on videotape and broadcast widely.

ISLAMABAD — The outrage was swift after Pakistani security forces shot dead an unarmed young man in the southern city of Karachi, an incident caught on videotape and broadcast widely. Editorial ...

Modern Poetry of Pakistan offers many offshoots of the classical tradition of Muslim poetry in India. Although Amir Khusrau (1253-1325), considered by some to be the first poet writing in a ...

It took Jaun Elia’s death on 8 November 2002 for the world to fall in love with his poetry. Today, he is one of the most Googled poets, but still remains an enigmatic figure in modern Urdu poetry—a ...

Pakistan is a country that reveres poetry, gently weaving it into daily life, and the last decade has provided no shortage of material. The rise and fall of a military ruler, the demands of a foreign ...

French philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy (26 July 1940 – 23 August 2021) said that “poetry makes the difficult, the absolutely difficult—easy”. This is the reason poetry had been used since ancient times as ...

After 1857, British imperialist colonialism asserted itself with full vigour in the Indo-Pak subcontinent and justified its rule and power by taking control of the social institutions. For example, ...

The Embassy of Pakistan in Kathmandu in collaboration with Sahitya Academy organized a literary event – poetry symposium, titled "Aalmi Mushaira; Urdu, Shaairi Ki Zubaan" at Hotel Aloft, Kathmandu on ...