Barring the social commentary requirement is precisely what Dr Khalid Aftab sets out to do in his handsomely produced collection of 19 Urdu short stories titled Potli. As the first vice chancellor ...

Muslim authors did the same with words of Persian and Arabic origin. Munshi Premchand, one of the pioneers of Urdu short story and a much revered figure of Urdu fiction, used to write in Urdu and ...

The Pakistan Academy of Letters yesterday launched the Urdu translation of Portuguese author José Luís Peixoto's novel Nenhum Olhar (Blank Gaze).Ambassador of Portugal to Pakistan Frederico Silva ...

Jaideep Pandey won the Rs 50,000 cash prize for his translation of Urdu writer Sameena Nair’s short story “Kallo”. The second place and a cash prize of Rs 25,000 was awarded to Malini ...