IT must have been someone with a bureaucratic bent of mind who coined the expression “collateral damage” for civilians killed in a war. And how naughty was the one who concocted the interesting ...

In English, ‘buggy’ means ‘a small car, often without roof or doors, used for a particular purpose’, says Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary. We have heard of garden buggy, golf buggy and beach ...

KARACHI: It took half a century to put together, but finally, the Urdu Dictionary Board has unveiled its 22-volume Urdu Lughat that contains the meaning of every single word in the language. It has ...

Radio Pakistan has uploaded the online Urdu Talking Dictionary of authentic pronunciation, 'Lafz o Awaz ki Urdu Dictionary', to its website on a trial basis. Minister for Information and Broadcasting ...

An image from a winter morning in Hyderabad, Pakistan, when I was four, forms my earliest memory of literacy. Bundled up in layers of sweaters, I am reciting from an Urdu newspaper as I sit astride my ...