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Our Urdu correspondent reports from the scene in Peshawar, north-west Pakistan, where emergency services have been responding ...

A local teacher, who helped rescuers search for survivors, tells the BBC he "pulled out six children" and recalls one being ...

At least 33 pupils and a teacher have been killed after a school roof collapsed in the north-western Pakistani city of ...

Want to bookmark your favourite articles and stories to read or reference later? Start your Independent Membership today. London mayor Sadiq Khan has mocked Zack Polanski by speaking to him in Urdu in ...

Zack Polanski, the Green leader who is standing as his party’s candidate in the Holborn and St Pancras byelection, has recorded a short campaign video in Urdu. Katie Lam, the shadow communities ...

London mayor Sadiq Khan mocked Zack Polanski by answering a question from him in Urdu. It came after the Green Party leader, who is a member of the London Assembly, was criticised for posting a ...

“I thought chair that as the member is so proficient in Urdu, I would speak in Urdu,” he said, jokingly adding: “I was worried the question might be in Urdu.” Mr Polanski had asked the mayor about ...

Naeem Ahmed, 58, stands on a stool arranging books. He focusses unusually hard on a task he has been doing for decades, something muscle memory would have carried him through. Naeem rented a 120-or-so ...

Our live coverage has now ended - read more in our news story Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has suspended a top health official after 14 newborn babies died in a fire at an Islamabad ...

There was something instinctive about it, like a current pulling me back towards the language of my parents and grandparents As someone who speaks in English, thinks in English and has published two ...

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