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020/.92/4 B 19. LC Class. Z720.K54 M35 1987. A Short History of Pakistan is an edited book published by University of Karachi Press and comprises four volumes. The book is edited by Prof Ishtiaq Hussain Qureshi and provides a comprehensive account of the history of the Pakistan region and its people from the prehistory leading to the creation ...
t. e. Maulvi Abdul Haq ( Urdu: مولوی عبد الحق) (20 April 1870 – 16 August 1961) was a scholar and a linguist, who some call Baba-e-Urdu ( Urdu: بابائے اردو) ( Father of Urdu ). Abdul Haq was a champion of the Urdu language and he demanded for it to be made the national language of Pakistan. [ 3][ 1]
Pakistani literature ( Urdu: ادبیاتِ پاکستان) is a distinct literature that gradually came to be defined after Pakistan gained nationhood status in 1947, emerging out of literary traditions of the South Asia. [ 1] The shared tradition of Urdu literature and English literature of British India was inherited by the new state.
The political history of Pakistan ( Urdu: پاکستان کی سیاسی تاريخ) is the narrative and analysis of political events, ideas, movements, and leaders of Pakistan. Pakistan gained independence from the United Kingdom on 14 August 1947, when the Presidencies and provinces of British India were divided by the United Kingdom, in a ...
t. e. A map outlining historical sites in Pakistan. The history of Pakistan precedes the country's creation in 1947. [ 1] Although, Pakistan was created in 1947 as a whole new country by the British [ 2] through partition of India, but the history of the land extends much further back and is intertwined with that of Afghanistan, India, and Iran.
Urdu. v. t. e. Urdu developed during the 13th century, although the name "Urdu" did not exist at the time for the language. Amir Khusrau, who lived in the thirteenth century, wrote and gave shape to the Rekhta dialect (The Persianized combination of Hindavi), which was the early form of Modern Standard Urdu. He was thus called, the "father of ...
Syed Ahmad Shah ( Urdu: سید احمد شاہ ), better known by his pen name Ahmed Faraz, ( Urdu: احمد فراز 12 January 1931 – 25 August 2008) [ 1][ 2][ 3] was a Pakistani Urdu poet, scriptwriter and became the founding Director General (later Chairman) of Pakistan Academy of Letters. [ 4] He wrote his poetry under the pseudonym Faraz.
S. M. Ikram. Sheikh Muhammad Ikram ( Urdu: شیخ محمد اکرام; 10 September [ a] 1908 – 17 January 1973) better known as S. M. Ikram, was a Pakistani historian, biographer, and littérateur. He was member of the Indian Civil Service (which he joined in 1931). In 1947, when Pakistan emerged from British India, Ikram opted for ...