By the 18th century, Urdu became a well-developed language with a body of literature that consisted mainly of poetry. Urdu poetry has a wide ... Nowadays, on the subcontinent of India and Pakistan, ...

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 ...

and in Pakistani Urdu literature in particular. It is a fact that many of the writers and poets come from the educated urban middle class and they portray the issues related mostly to what they ...

This fortnight, we review a book of Punjabi poetry by one of Pakistan's most distinguished poets, who wrote in Urdu as well as Punjabi, but made no secret of his love for the latter. In this ...

Among the poets expected to recite their works include Ahmed Faraz, Kishwar Naheed, Dr Pirzadah Qasim, Anwar Masood, Saleem Kausar, Azm Behzad, and Mohsin Changezi from Pakistan and Bashir Badr ...

Tune into this podcast to listen to the review. Munir Niazi is one of Pakistan's most distinguished poets, who wrote in Urdu as well as Punjabi, but made no secret of his love for the latter.