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Go language-specific, go cheap and go hyper-local to reap success appears to be the motto...

Al Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS) has released the latest issue of its Urdu-language magazine Nawa-i-Ghazwa-e-Hind (“The Voice of the Battle of India”) in which it describes the Texas synagogue hostage-taker Malik Faisal Akram as “martyr” and says that Jews run the American government. Writes Christine Douglass-Williams There are Islamic texts that instruct hatred…

There’s little understanding of labour as a holistic subject.

The following are some of this week's reports from the MEMRI Jihad and Terrorism Threat Monitor (JTTM) Project, which translates and analyzes content from sources monitored around the clock, among them the most important jihadi websites and blogs. (To view these reports in full, you must be a paying member of the JTTM; for membership information, send an email to jttmsubs@memri.org with "Membership" in the subject line.)

That the two founding figures of Indian and Pakistani independence were united by a shared love of Urdu speaks eloquently of the language’s rich history.

The writer died in Lahore on 2 January, 2022 at the age of 83.

Five area mosques and Islamic centers came together in late summer to form plans to help...

The Rekhta Foundation that he established in 2012 has thus far digitised more than 50,000 e-books that are available online and has taken Urdu to various geographies through a series of events that have opened up a whole new world to the nuances and wonders of the language.

For over a decade now, after fulfilling (his) career responsibilities - his company is one of the worlds largest producers of PET films with manufacturing plants in India, Thailand and Turkey with markets across the US, Southeast Asia, South America and Turkey - Sanjiv Saraf has been devoting himself to creating a platform and an ecosystem for the Urdu language that would be sustainable and institutional in nature.

The Rekhta Foundation that he established in 2012 has thus far digitised more than 50,000 e-books that are available online and has taken Urdu to various geographies through a series of events that have opened up a whole new world to the nuances and wonders of the language.