Department of Urdu

Overview

The Department of Urdu Language & Literature was established in NIML in November, 1976. Initially its courses were designed and started for foreigners only. They were certificate, diploma and advance diploma courses in 1996 affiliation was made with the Quid-e-Azam University and MA (Urdu) classes were also introduced for Pakistani as well as foreigner students. After getting the independent status of university M.Phil and Ph.D classes were also introduced in Jan 2001. In addition BA (Urdu) and BAML were also started with four years duration along with MA Urdu external in 2003 and BA external in 2015. 

In June 2002 1st issue of Urdu research journal Daryaft appeared and since then twenty one issues have been published. The second research journal Takhliqui Adab issued in March 2004. Both the journals are included in the list of approved research journal of Higher Education Commission of Pakistan. From February 2016 HEC merged both Annual journals into one Bi-annual and has been upgraded to category Y. These journals are available on university website: www.numl.edu.pk/urdu-index.html. It is also included in international databases Ulrich and MLA and are available on EBSCO, Proquest, CSA, the major distributers of MLA.

Vision

To become a leading center of academic excellence and research in Urdu Language, Literature and cultural studies. 

Mission

To ensure state of the art academic and research opportunities through creative pedagogy and critical thinking in emerging studies in Urdu language & literature