BBC Urdu used to have very high standard a few years ago. Their team included famous writers, poets, intellectuals and journalists but now, that has not been the case. I often hear funny pronunciations of the national language of Pakistan, Urdu and not just that one woman newscaster even changed the grammatical structure of the sentence to object-subject verb - can you believe it? Me neither!
Today's entertainment headline says here about the seperation of Tom Cruise and Katie Holms: "Tom Cruise aur Katie Holmes talaq lay rahay hain"
...this sentence gives an impression that both are divorcing each other but the fact is Katie Holmes filed for a divorce on Friday. Correct Urdu version of the headlines could have been: Tom Cruise aur Katie Holmes main talqa ho rahi hai.
I guess BBC Urdu must get a professional Urdu language editor to have the news correctly written in a well deserved manner. A foreign friend who is studying Urdu was quite confused especially if it comes from organizations such as BBC Urdu.
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