Lawmakers in Pakistan's Punjab Assembly can now speak in four indigenous languages, including Punjabi, after an amendment. Previously a member needed permission from the Speaker to use any language ...

Around 27 languages spoken in Northern Areas, Kashmir, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and surrounding border areas of Pakistan are facing extinction, said a Unesco report. The report revealed that language is the ...

LONDON — Pakistan has chosen “Zinda Bhaag” as its contender for the foreign-language Academy Award race. The film is in the Urdu and Punjabi languages, produced by Mazhar Zaidi and written and ...

A three-day festival began on Friday in the provincial capital with an aim to highlight the culture and civilization of Punjab. The grand event, which saw the participation of more than 5,000 people ...

CHANDIGARH: It is a unique phenomenon that the educated Punjabi is ashamed of his mother tongue and thinks that it is the language of the uncultured wrote famous Pakistan academic Prof Eric Cyprian ...

This post is part of our special coverage Languages and the Internet. Pakistan today would seem primed for rapid growth in internet use. The country has had explosive growth of FM radio, satellite and ...

ISLAMABAD: Lawmakers in Pakistan's Punjab Assembly would now be able to speak in at least four indigenous languages, including Punjabi, in the house apart from English and Urdu after an amendment was ...