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Posts Tagged ‘Politics (Urdu)’

Please Address in Urdu, Dear Leaders

By Muskan Hina • Apr 19th, 2010 • Category: Politics

For years, I have been observing that our leaders consider it their responsibility to address the nation or the parliament in the English language. English is world’s most famous English and no doubt an international language and is a pre-requisite to progress in this competitive world. But we have our own language which is national, [...]



Madrasahs: Boon or Bane?

By Guest Blogger • Feb 22nd, 2010 • Category: Politics

Education is the fundamental factor in the process of human development. Madrasah is the Arabic word of Semitic origin (viz Hebrew Midrash) for any type of educational institution, whether secular or religious (of any religion). The word is also present as a loanword with the same innocuous meaning in many Arabic-influenced languages, such as: Urdu, [...]



TUTORIAL: Enable your PC to write Urdu anywhere within minutes

By Muhammad Ahmed • Dec 28th, 2009 • Category: Technology

There has been several ways to write in URDU, the best i recently found is using Google Input Method. Follow the instructions and you’ll be able to write Urdu(Letters/characters/
sentences) on facebook, MS Word/ notepad or anywhere you want to do
اپنے پی سی کو اردو لکھنےکےقبل بنانے کے لیےمختلف طریقے موجود ہیں ، پیش [...]



Donde Drug Trade Dollars De Afghanistan?

By kami • Jun 4th, 2008 • Category: Politics

As I mentioned in my last article, on February 27, 2008 at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) Bob Schieffer, anchor of CBS News’ “Face the Nation,” moderated a seminar where Nicholas Burns, then Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs, commented about drug production in Afghanistan:
“It is a country that has seen its [...]



Send Mohajirs Back!

By fzuberi • Apr 14th, 2008 • Category: Politics

Peshawar; 11th April 2008: Mr. Latif Afridi the president of the PBA Peshawar bar association, a highly respected and highly educated man, was making a speech to his bar.
In his speech he expressed his views, of the (disputed) Pakistani community that migrated from the parts of India which are now Indian territory, leaving their belongings, [...]



Altaf Hussain, who you’re trying to fool?

By Talal Hussain Malik • Apr 13th, 2008 • Category: Politics

Altaf Hussain of MQM could be a great teacher for you if you wanted to master the intonation pattern of Urdu language. Well, that’s not what I want to talk about here but the news is that Altaf Bhai decided to resign from MQM’s leadership and then took a U turn before the news could [...]