Pakistan's defence minister declares "open war" against Taliban after Islamabad says two of its soldiers were killed.

A statue of Sir Winston Churchill in Westminster is being cleaned after it was defaced with graffiti branding the former prime minister a 'Zionist war criminal'. Other phrases including 'Stop the ...

Pakistan has launched its first homegrown Urdu language AI model, Qalb. Developed by Taimoor Hassan, a Pakistani student currently studying in the United States, Qalb is being described as the world’s ...

LAHORE: Pakistan’s own Urdu ChatGPT, “Qalb”, has officially been launched, marking a historic milestone in the country’s digital journey. Developed under the leadership of Taimoor Hassan, a Pakistani ...

Abstract: This paper gives an across-the-board comprehensive review and survey of the most prominent studies in the field of Urdu optical character recognition (OCR). This paper introduces the OCR ...

Abstract: Urdu text is a cursive script and belongs to a non-Latin family of other cursive scripts like Arabic, Chinese, and Hindi. Urdu text poses a challenge for detection/localization from natural ...

Once the lingua franca of North India, spoken in marketplaces, courts, and homes across caste and creed, Urdu today is too often boxed into a single identity — the language of Indian Muslims. But ...

Despite the dazzling glare and shimmer of the screen, the yearning for books, conversation, poetry recitations and music remains unremitting. There is a remarkable enthusiasm even in languages other ...

VIJAYAWADA: Minority leader Farooq Shubli has formally assumed charge as Chairman of the Andhra Pradesh Urdu Academy at the Secretariat in Velagapudi on Thursday, in the presence of minister for ...

It is while flipping through the yellowed pages of an old feedback register at Danish Mahal that I spot Manzoor Parwana. Seated quietly in his chair, sipping a glass of tea, the 77-year-old retired ...