Rauf Parekh

Rauf Parekh is an Urdu lexicographer, linguist, humorist and a Pakistani newspaper columnist.

Farman Fatehpuri, president of the Urdu Lughat Board, said in an interview, "The Urdu Lughat Board plans to publish 22 volumes containing 300,000 words, give or take a few hundred words."

He praised Rauf Parekh for bringing out two volumes of the Urdu Lughat in two years.

[1] In 2017, Rauf Parekh taught Urdu at the University of Karachi and wrote a weekly literary column in Dawn newspaper.

[2] Rauf Parekh was appointed director general of National Language Promotion Department, Islamabad, in December 2020.He also writes columns in English for the newspaper DAWN.