Bazyaft, a biannual Research Journal, published by Institute of Urdu Language and Literature, University of the Punjab, Lahore. BAZYAFT is a high quality double blind peer reviewed research journal. It is an open access bi-annual journal and is published by Institute of Urdu Language and Literature, University of the Punjab (Pakistan). Its main aim is to provide a platform for the researchers, academicians, professionals and students to share their knowledge with the others in the form of good quality research papers from all over the world. BAZYAFT focuses on modern trends of literary research and criticism in the subject of Urdu Language and Literature, but regards the classical tradition of Urdu poetry and fiction too. Research papers which address the links between Urdu and other languages and their literature are also considered for publishing in this journal. BAZYAFT is committed to publishing the wide range of new topics of research on one important criterion that is literary and critical excellence. It is an Approved Journal from HEC Pakistan in Category “Y”. It is indexed, abstracted or listed in Google Scholar, DOAJ, Crossref, Ebsco Essentials, Semantic Scholar, BASE, Dimensions, AccessOn Kisti, Neliti, ROAD of ISSN, Modern Language Association (MLA)'s Directory of Periodicals, Scilit, OUCI, J-Gate, CORE of UK, The OAIster® database of OCLC,, WorldCat, LiVre of Brazil, Directory of Research Journals Indexing, Researchgate, ResearchBib of Academic Resource Index, Index Copernicus (ICI),Index of Urdu Journals, Euoropub, Asian Research Index and Tehqeeqat.