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Attash Durrani was born on 22 January, 1952 in Sahiwal, Pakistan, is a Urdu writer, Researcher, Teacher, Educationist. Discover Attash Durrani's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is He in this year and how He spends money? Also learn how He earned most of networth at the age of 66 years old?

Popular As Atta Ullah Khan
Occupation Urdu writer, Researcher, Teacher, Educationist
Age 66 years old
Zodiac Sign Aquarius
Born 22 January 1952
Birthday 22 January
Birthplace Montgomery, Punjab, Pakistan
Date of death November 30, 2018
Died Place N/A
Nationality Pakistan

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Children M. Asad Zaman (son), Anita Ghazal Jujo (Granddaughter)

Attash Durrani Net Worth

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2014

He was chairman of the subcommittee on standardization( Cabinet Committee on the Implementation of Urdu) in the Ministry of Information, Pakistan. He was also honorary chairman INKSOFT Inc., Islamabad, (Pakistan's first Software Localization Company) for the Localization for Urdu, Pakistani (Pashto, Punjabi, Sindhi), Persian, Dari and Arabic languages. His translation work goes for more than 50 thousand pages of Literary, Official, Technical, and Computer Localization. Translations include" Hymns of Akhenaton", and "The Book of Precious Stones" by Alberuni into Urdu, published by National Book Foundation Islamabad. He has served as professor, Pakistani languages, in Allama Iqbal Open University. He has also served as Director multimedia (Urdu Medium) e-course-ware (Urdu e-literacy), in Computer Science and Pakistani Languages Departments, Allama Iqbal Open University Islamabad. He has served as Project Director, Center of Excellence for Urdu Informatics, National Language Authority, Pakistan. He also worked in National Book Foundation as Asst. Editor monthly "Kitab", and several other responsibilities. He is serving National Book Foundation as Advisor, Textbook Development since May 2014 for redesigning of textbooks for NBF establishing as Federal Textbook Board, Islamabad, as per style guides he already developed for Punjab Textbook Board, Lahore and federal Education. He is a member of the National Curriculum Council, Federal Ministry of Education Islamabad.

He has also been listed in the List of notable or famous alumni/graduates/students from University of the Punjab; prominent alums from this institution include celebrities, politicians and business people. He is considered Unsung Hero of Pakistan in the lecture of Mr. Badar Sami on 13 Feb. 2014. His name is included in the top 1800 scholars/ writers by a European researcher Paolo Nagrini of Munich, who impressed at least three other scholars among the thirty thousand on internet. He is the 1st theorist on Computer from Pakistan in the document of Ghost Characters Atomization-Combination Theory accepted and implemented by the UNICODE.

2010

The President of Pakistan granted him the National Civil Award Tamgha-i-Imtiaz on his contributions to the Urdu literature and Urdu Informatics, on 14 August 2010, that was given on 23 March 2011. He has been honoured with a higher civil award 'Sitara-i-Imtiaz' conferred by the President of Pakistan on 14 August 2015 and decorated on 23 March 2016. His books Iqbal ka Insiklopedia and Pakistani Urdu received appreciations from former presidents of Pakistan. He is deriving a hypothesis on Pakistani as a language on e-world, a theory against Hindustani. He is the flag-career activist linguist of Language Planning, Development, Promotion and Policy for Urdu and Pakistani languages.

2007

A thesis of M.Phil. level is written by Mussarat Khan Zahidi on the contributions of his works, in the Department of Urdu, University of Peshawar in 2007. Another Study of M.Phil. (Urdu) is conducted by Khalid Mehmood in the University of Sargodha on the linguistic contributions of his works in 2013. Two M.A. and B.A. honours level theses on his literary contributions are developed in the Education University, and FCC University, Lahore in 2012, and several others. The Impact of his Ghost Characters Theory created two doctoral theses: one in Pakistan in 2011 in CS Dept. International Islamic University, Islamabad by Dr. M. Imran Razzak on Online Urdu Character Recognition in Unconstrained Environment; And the second in India in 2013 in CS Dept. North Maharashtar University, Jalgaon by Dr. Imran Khan Pathan on Automatic Segmentation and Recognition of Offline Handwritten Urdu Text. He is also known as Localization Guru of Pakistan. This is also highlighted in the Weekly "Technology Times ", Islamabad.

1995

He has been listed in international WHO'S WHO in Translation and Terminology (1995), published by Union Latine Infoterm International Where, How and Praetorius. He is also listed in the LINGUIST List. His credentials as an expert in multilingualism are mentioned in International Directory of Multilingualism, Union Latine, Paris (2007).

1991

Durrani received his PhD in Urdu terminology in 1991 from the University Oriental College, University of the Punjab, Lahore. He was a curriculum and textbook development specialist for Urdu, literacy, basic and at all the higher education levels and Urdu informatics for ADB, GIZ/GTZ, ESRA, JICA, UNESCO, US Aid, Islamabad, Pakistan and Curriculum Wing, Federal Ministry of Education, AIOU and Higher Education Commission of Pakistan (HEC). He has also shown interest in gemmology, writing books on Urdu jawaharat.

1952

Attash Durrani (Urdu: عطش درانی ‎; 22 January 1952 – 30 November 2018) was a Pakistani linguist, researcher, critic and author, educationist and gemologist. He wrote more than 275 books and app. 500 papers in Urdu and English, left impact on the disciplines of Language, Education and Computer Science or I.T., and received Tamgha-i-Imtiaz and Sitara-e-Imtiaz for his work of Urdu language and literature. He died on 30 November 2018.