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 ...

Pakistan and its people have inherited rich cultural heritage of poetry from the pre-partition era. This heritage included great names in Urdu and Persian poetry, like Mirza Ghalib, Momim, Dard, Mir ...

Known for his quiet, yet inspiring contribution to Urdu poetry, naat, marsia, ghazal, rubai and unique research on the Persian poetry of Ghalib, Omar Khayam and Amir Khusro is Saba Akbarabadi. His ...

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 ...

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 ...

In our fortnightly literary series, our Pakistan-based reporter Masood Mallhi reviews 'Kuliyat-E-Noor', a collection of Punjabi poetry by Noor Muhammad Noor Kapoor Thalvi. Listen to this feature in ...

Despite its brief history, Pakistani poetry in English has remained a practice in constant flux. Throughout the years, it has evolved to embrace within it a range of distinctive voices, experiences, ...