IMMEDIATELY after the creation of Pakistan, there was an overwhelming and euphoric sense of achievement and it ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Pakistan is often described as a poetic nation, and not without reason. Urdu poetry circulates with ease across class, region, and generation. Verses are memorised, quoted, sung, reposted, and ...

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 ...

HOUSTON, May 3, 2011 — Poets Fahmida Riaz and Hasina Gul, joined by poet-translator Waqas Khwaja, introduced a major new anthology of contemporary Pakistani poetry at a reading hosted by Asia Society ...

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, ...