VL

Pakistan Virtual Library
Education and Languages

 Asian Studies WWW Virtual Library
  • Education: Directories and Guides to Sites
  • Education
    http://pakavenue.com/db/Education/
    [A hyperlinked list of institutions for education in Pakistan, provided by Pak Avenue.]
  • Pakistan Alumni Associations
    http://pakavenue.com/db/Education/Alumni_Associations/
    [Pak Avenue also provides links to PSA pages in Pakistan, Canada, the United States, Norway, and the United Kingdom.]

    Education: Individual Institutions, Institutes, Contractors
  • Karachi Institute of Information Technology
    http://www.kiit.edu.pk/kiit/main.htm
    [An institute that offers some programmes in cooperation with the University of Huddersfield.]
  • Planwel University (Karachi)
    http://www.planwel.edu/
    [A training resource for new technologies.]
  • Punjab Group of Colleges
    http://www.pgc.edu/
    [A group of training schools and colleges that are oriented toward new technologies.]
  • Worldwide Classroom
    http://www.worldwide.edu/
    [Links to web sites from WorldWide Classroom for schools at all levels.]

    Languages
  • Beauty that is Urdu (USA)
    http://www.cs.uh.edu/~ahmed/urdu.html
    [A useful selection of links to various kinds of Urdu sites, with an unrelated warning against Ahmadiyyas (Qadianis).]
  • Early Learning: Urdu Alphabets (Pakistan)
    http://www.pakdata.com/alif/
    [A preview version of multimedia software to assist in learning Urdu script.]
  • Ethnologue
    http://www.sil.org/ethnologue/
    [Online version of the 13th edition of a catalogue of more than 6,700 languages spoken in 228 countries. May be searched by language name, language family, or region.]
  • Hindi and Urdu Language Resources
    http://www.cs.colostate.edu/~malaiya/hindilinks.html
    [An extensive set of links to online resources for study of Hindu and Urdu.]
  • Languages and Scripts of India (USA)
    http://www.cs.colostate.edu/~malaiya/scripts.html
    [Languages of Pakistan are included among those represented at this site at Colorado State University, USA. Among the languages described and exemplified are Urdu, Kashmiri, Punjabi, and Sindhi.]
  • Peoples and Languages in Pre-Islamic Indus Valley (USA)
    http://asnic.utexas.edu/asnic/subject/peoplesandlanguages.html
    [A scholarly paper presented by Dr. Tariq Rahman when he was Fulbright Visiting Fellow at the University of Texas, Austin, USA. He offers interesting information and hypotheses concerning the languages of the region at an early period.]
  • Shairy.Com
    http://www.shairy.com/
    [Notable Urdu poetry resources.]
  • Urdu Software Digest (USA)
    http://www.gy.com/www/ur.htm
    [Commercially available software resources from ComStar Company in Cupertino, California.]
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