About the Journal

Daryaft is an Open Access Urdu research and critical inquiry journal E ISSN:2616-6038, P ISSN:1814-2885, published by the Department of Urdu Language & Literature, National University of Modern Languages(NUML), Islamabad. The first issue was published in January 2002 and so far (June 2023) Twenty nine issues have been printed.  Since June 2016 it is published bi-annually in January and June. The unpublished research-based articles in the context of Urdu language and literature are included in Daryaft. Articles are sent to the technical experts for double blind peer review. In 2005 journal was selected in the approved list of HEC journals. From 2011, it is included in many indexing and database agencies, like MLA, DOAJ, ROAD, Crossref, EBSCO, SIS, ISI, BASE, Google Scholar, Tehqiqat, Index of Urdu Journals etc.