"Dram", meaning a measure of whisky. "Turm", describing a cavalry unit. "Taupie", a foolish youngster. Not words in a typical teen's vocabulary, but all come easily ...

A dual-language road sign at the Wagah border— English on top, Urdu on the bottom— speaks louder than words. It demonstrates that English in Pakistan isn’t a foreign artifact but an operational ...

The British Council and the School Education Department (SED), Government of Punjab, have signed a Letter of Intent (LoI) to ...

Meanwhile, the Single National Curriculum (SNC) has struggled to bridge this divide, largely because many teachers lack the training or English proficiency needed to make it work. The problem is not ...

Pakistani writing in English is attracting ever-increasing attention, both in Pakistan and the West. This might seem to be a self-explanatory category, comprising writing produced in English by ...

Arthur Dudney receives funding from the Leverhulme Trust. Views expressed are his own. For a country seven decades old, Pakistan is dealing with a surprisingly fundamental political and cultural ...

In every age, there was a language of knowledge. We know that Arabic was the purveyor of science and inquiry in the 12th century when Ibn Rushd gave Europe its Renaissance by introducing it to ...

When Hamid Henry wrote a play about Easter for a Pakistani television channel, he struggled to present the words "Paschal" and "Eucharist" in Urdu, the national language, for his Muslim viewers.

Pakistan captain Mohammad Rizwan launched an emotional rant over being trolled for his poor English. Ahead of Multan Sultans' first game in the Pakistan Super League, Rizwan spoke passionately about ...