January 19, 2008	Saturday	Muharram 09, 1429

KARACHI, Jan 18: The Higher Education Commission (HEC) will publish the world’s first monograph entitled “Urdu Research in Universities” under its Monograph and Textbook Writing Scheme in a couple of months. The monograph mainly includes a bibliographical list of topics in which M.Lit, MPhil, PhD and D.Lit degrees in Urdu literature and language have been conferred by the 81 universities of the world.

Authored by Prof Rafiuddin Hashmi, it will have 4,374 entries. The foreword has been written by Dr Jamil Jalbi.—PPI