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  2. Pakistani English literature - Wikipedia

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    Pakistani English literature refers to English literature that has been developed and evolved in Pakistan, as well as by members of the Pakistani diaspora who write in the English language. English is one of the official languages of Pakistan (the other being Urdu) and has a history going back to the British colonial rule in South Asia (the ...

  3. Pakistani literature - Wikipedia

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    Pakistani English writing has had some readership in the country. From 1980s Pakistani English literature began to receive national and official recognition, when the Pakistan Academy of Letters included works originally written English in its annual literary awards. The first major English writer to receive this national honour was Alamgir Hashmi.

  4. Pakistan studies - Wikipedia

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    Pakistan studies curriculum (Urdu: مطالعہ پاکستان Muṭāla-e-Pākistān) is the name [1] [2] of a curriculum of academic research and study that encompasses the culture, demographics, geography, history, International Relations and politics of Pakistan. The subject is widely researched in and outside the country, though outside ...

  5. Muhammad Iqbal - Wikipedia

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    Iqbal's mother, Imam Bibi who died on 9 November 1914. Iqbal expressed his feeling of pathos in a poetic form after her death.. Iqbal was born on 9 November 1877 in a Punjabi-Kashmiri family [18] from Sialkot in the Punjab Province of British India (now in Pakistan). [19]

  6. Pakistani English - Wikipedia

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    Pakistani English (Paklish, Pinglish, PakEng, en-PK [2] [3]) is a group of English-language varieties spoken in Pakistan and among the Pakistani diaspora. [4] English is the primary language used by the government of Pakistan, alongside Urdu, on the national level.

  7. Languages of Pakistan - Wikipedia

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    Urdu is taught as a compulsory subject up to higher secondary school in both English and Urdu medium school systems, which has produced millions of second-language Urdu speakers among people whose native language is one of the other languages of Pakistan – which in turn has led to the absorption of vocabulary from various regional Pakistani ...

  8. 1962 East Pakistan Education movement - Wikipedia

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    The 1962 East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) education movement was a movement by students against the education policy recommended by the Sharif Commission, official name Commission on National Education, [1] to President of Pakistan, Ayub Khan. The policy would have made English and Urdu mandatory subjects. [2]

  9. Abdul Haq (Urdu scholar) - Wikipedia

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    In 1948, Haq migrated to Pakistan. [5] In the wake of migration and the accompanying riots in 1947, much of his property, especially valuable manuscripts, papers and books were lost. [citation needed] However, some of the material which he brought to Pakistan is kept in the Urdu Dictionary Board library. [1]