The event was attended by Chinese academicians of Urdu literature, students of the Urdu Language Department of Beijing Foreign Studies University, and Mission’s officers. Photo Courtesy: APP BEIJING: ...

Dr Muhammad Iqbal was a great thinker and poet who had presented the concept for creation of a separate homeland for the Muslims of the sub-continent which came to be known as Pakistan. An ...

In his preface to his new collection of poetry, Daana-i-Raaz [One Who Knows the Secret], Azad Iqbal declares that his aim is to spread the message of his grandfather, Allama Muhammad Iqbal. Making the ...

ALLAMA Iqbal’s first poetic collection in Urdu, Baang-i-Dara, was first published in 1924. But before Iqbal could bring out this work, two admirers of Iqbal collected and published their own versions ...

For Pakistan's national poet Allama Iqbal 145th birth anniversary on Tuesday, observers are highlighting the influence of Mevlana, or Maulana Rumi, a 13th century Sufi mystic, poet and Islamic scholar ...