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Just happen to stumble upon this ad by Air Arabia on Jang newspaper website and couldn't help notice the error in Urdu to English translation.

First time in life…

I have never seen this before!

The cutting is from a well known Pakistani Urdu Newspaper (Nawa-e-Waqt). It was published (yesterday) Thursday, March 06, 2008.

Urdu used to be very vibrant language, evolving and adding new words and phrases. The mother of urdu language is Farsi, but one of the reasons of urdu being highly adopted was in the social backdrop of its time of growth - people used to speak farsi and arabic and mix of local langauges.

Got this interesting email today... Thought of sharing with you all...

You can now translate any English website in Urdu with http://www.paktranslations.com/

9th of November, what is the importance of this day, why it's been declared as a national holiday? Well, it's the day when our great national poet Allama Muhammad Iqbal was born!