The following sites may be useful to instructors of Urdu

UrduAlphabets Site: This site introduces the Urdu alphabet and other Urdu learning tools online.

UrduSeek.com: This is an English to Urdu dictionary

UrduNews.net: This site provides the latest news in Urdu and provides a searchable archive.

Learn to Read Urdu

UrduWord.com: Interactive English to Urdu dictionary on the web

www.urdustan.com

UK India: News, views,and information about the Indian sub-continent, including lessons on how to read various languages of the region (eg Urdu, Hindi).

Prasad Naik's India Links: A categorised list of links to India resources on the Internet.

ScrubIndia: A search engine for sites on the Indian subcontinent.

Digital Dictionaries of South Asia: Project to create and disseminate electronic dictionaries for each of the twenty-six modern literary languages of South Asia. At least one multilingual dictionary is being selected for each South Asian language; in the case of more frequently taught languages, a monolingual dictionary is also chosen. The dictionaries are available by means of standard file transfer protocol, or by compact disc. There is no charge for access via the Internet and the compact discs are available for the cost of duplication and mailing.

Pakistani Books.com: online Pakistani bookstore

Quran Majeed: with Urdu and English translation

Free Urdu E-Mail Download: You can try Ruqqa Urdu Email software free for 20 days.
After trial period you have to register your software. Urdu Email software also includes Urdu
Plugin (Urdu Viewer Plugin) which extends your browsers to view Urdu websites created with
Urdu 98

Urdu Poetry Page: This page is supposed to be updated frequently

Pakistan Links Urdu Version

Beauty that is Urdu : A useful selection of links to various kinds of Urdu sites.

History of Urdu Poetry

History and Culture -- Urdu: Pakistan's Official Language

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: Pakistan's Official Language (USA)
http://www.rpi.edu/dept/union/paksa/www/html/pakistan/urdu.html
Brief historical background on the language, with examples, provided by the Pakistan Student
Association at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York, USA.

Urdu Software Digest (USA)
http://www.gy.com/www/ur.htm
Commercially available software resources from ComStar Company in Cupertino, California.

Urdu Web (USA)
http://www.urduweb.com/
A collection of useful resources for use of Urdu online and elsewhere. Founded in 1997 in Silicon
Valley, USA, by Umair A. Khan, an MIT Computer Engineering graduate.