Urdu poetry is well renowned for its rich past, enormous beauty, and complexity in expressions. For those willing to start to ...

More than 200 literary luminaries from the country and across the Pakistani diaspora will take part in the 16th edition of ...

"Hazaron khwahishen aisi ki har khwahish pe dam nikle/Bahut nikle mere armaan, lekin phir bhi kam nikle…” he narrated with a hint of melancholy in his voice. We ...

ZE, khe and sheen are in fact three letters of Urdu alphabet that denote the sounds z, kh and sh. These are the initials for ...

Coming from a lineage of writers, Javed Akhtar—son of renowned Urdu poet and lyricist Jan Nisar Akhtar—released his first poetry book, Tarkash (Quiver), a collection of 52 ghazals and nazms, in 1995.

he relationship between a city and literature is reciprocal. The city nourishes the imagination of writers while writers shape the cultural landscape of the city. The life, places, and spaces of a ...

Pakistani literature has developed significantly over the years, with authors from diverse backgrounds enriching fiction, ...

Dan Brown, one of the most famous thriller writers in the world who has kept his audience hooked to the stories of Robert ...

The 16th edition of Karachi Literature Festival (KLF) is set to begin on Friday, as hosts and partners signified the growth ...

A founding member of the Christian Journalists Association of Pakistan, he championed voices marginalized by the Muslim-dominant society.

In the years she spent in India, Fahmida Riaz wrote a significant but underappreciated body of poems. When read together, ...

These novels shift seamlessly between historical fiction, speculative narrative, and intimate human drama, transcending ...