A.M. Khan International Mother Language Day is celebrated every year to reiterate the global commitment that languages and multiculturalism can advance inclusion and diversity, and help leaving no one behind. This year’s celebration, in Chitral, must be a rethink on the meaning of the notion: mother tongue, is translated in patrilineal tradition. Bifurcated into […]
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Local lore suggests Jinnah was born in Jhirk in 1876, at around the same time that the first Aga Khan had been living there. Hasan Ali Khan (Published in Dawn.com) On Saturday, October 9, 2021, I left Karachi with architect and urban planner Arif Hasan, his research assistant, student interns and a friend to head
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ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Mother Languages Literature Festival concluded on the eve of the International Day of Mother Languages on Sunday, pledging to promote cultural diversity and demanding institutions concerned take proactive measures to safeguard endangered languages of the country. The three-day festival held at at the Pakistan Academy of Letters (PAL) left behind yet another
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Prof. Rahmat Karim Baig Once I had the honour to attend a seminar on indigenous knowledge of the old days of Chitral and there were many learned and professional men from Chitral and other districts. They spoke on various old skills, risk reduction tools, development of skills of various crafts, architectural approach of the old
Prof. Rahmat Karim Baig The hands that rocked the cradle ruled the world. This is an English saying copied from literary circles but in English as well as in other languages parody is sometimes used to entertain friends or let’s say poets, who often resort to this form. There were cynics who brought a little
