The Department of Urdu Language & Literature has been committed to promote and development of Urdu. We are contributing to the Urdu language and literature education in Pakistan. To further enhance our teaching and research standards and establish the NUML as an outstanding model of “university of languages” in the region. Our Department comprises 21 teaching and research staff. We teach a number of programs, including the newly developed Bachelor of Science (BS-Urdu) in Urdu Studies. The Urdu department provides foreigners students of BSML with different levels of Urdu course as well. On the research front, the Faculty, in addition to its continued effort in consolidating research strengths in Urdu language and literature and applied linguistics, has been devoting every effort in developing academic research in language and literature. With the establishment of the Faculty-level Research, the Faculty works with the University-level Research, pulling together research teams and strengthening academic publications, all in an attempt to advance Pakistan’s National language teaching enhancement through high quality academic research. We also publish one Urdu research journal Daryaft.  This journals is included in the list of approved research journals of HEC in "Y" category and International database and indexing agencies i.e. MLA directory of periodicals, Urlichweb and Proquest.