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Urdu literature (Urdu: ادبیاتِ اُردُو, “Adbiyāt-i Urdū”) comprises the literary works, written in the Urdu language.While, It tends to be dominated by poetry, especially the verse forms of the ghazal (غزل) and nazm (نظم), it has expanded into other styles of writing, including that of the short story, or afsana (افسانہ).
Biography. Pen Name A. Hameed; real name Abdul Hameed (Urdu: اے۔. حمید -; 22 Dec 1924 – 29 April 2011) was an Urdu short story writer, novelist, columnist, and children's author from Pakistan. He established his literary identity with his debut novel Derbay/ڈربے، in 1950 and his first collection of Urdu short stories Manzil ...
Writing in both Urdu and English, he earned an MBE for services to poetry. He has resided in England since 1990, where he was awarded the North West Playwrights Workshop Award in 1992 and published an abridged translation of his long play Bisaat (entitled "The Chess Board") along with several volumes of poetry both in Urdu and English.
Ashfaq Ahmed was born on 22 August 1925 in Muktsar, Punjab, British India, in an ethnic Pashtun family of the Mohmand tribe. [1][4][5][6] His early education was in Muktsar. [4][5][7] Shortly before the partition of India in 1947, he migrated to Pakistan and settled in Lahore, Punjab. [8] He completed a Master of Arts degree in Urdu literature ...
1950 – anthem, without lyrics, was performed for the first time for a foreign head of state on the state visit of the Shah of Iran to Pakistan in Karachi on 1 March 1950 by a Pakistan Navy band. 1952 – Verses written by the Pakistani poet Hafeez Jullundhri are selected from amongst 723 entries. 2011 – On 14 August, 5,857 people gathered ...
Syed Imtiaz Ali Taj (Urdu: سیّد امتیاز علی تاؔج; Sayyid Imtiyāz ʿAlī Tāj; 1900–1970) was a Pakistani dramatist who wrote in the Urdu language. [1] He is best known for his 1922 play Anarkali, based on the life of Anarkali, that was staged hundreds of times and was adapted for feature films in India and Pakistan, including ...
Pakistan Zindabad (Urdu: پاکِستان زِندہباد, transl. "Long Live Pakistan ") is a patriotic slogan used by Pakistanis in displays of Pakistani nationalism. [1][2] The phrase became popular among the Muslims of British India after the 1933 publication of the "Pakistan Declaration" by Choudhry Rahmat Ali, who argued that the ...
Nuqta. The nuqta (Hindi: नुक़्ता, Urdu: نقطہ, romanized: nuqtā; sometimes also spelled nukta), is a diacritic mark that was introduced in Devanagari and some other Indic scripts to represent sounds not present in the original scripts. [A][1] It takes the form of a dot placed below a character. This idea is inspired from the ...