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Rana Printers Multan

Rana Printers Urdu Literature Corpus

This corpus comprises 1.68 million tokens of high-quality Urdu text collected over the past decade through Rana Printers. It includes a diverse range of literary genres such as stories, short stories, novels, fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and historical works. All content is shared with the authors’ approval. The dataset is intended to support linguistic research, Urdu language technology development, and the preservation of literary and cultural heritage.

License: CC-BY-NC-4.0

Locale: ur

Task: OTH

Format: TXT

Size: 3.00 MB

Kaleem Art Press

Kaleem Art Press Urdu Literature Corpus

This corpus is a collection of 1.44 million tokens of Urdu language . The data was produced under the Kaleem Art Press over the last fifteen years . The corpus contains work of literature including Stories, Short Stories, Novels, fiction, non-fiction, Travelogues, Poetry, Biography, and History. The data is being shared with the approval of the authors. It aims to support linguistic research, language technology development, and cultural preservation.

License: CC-BY-NC-4.0

Locale: ur

Task: OTH

Format: TXT

Size: 2.85 MB

Bismillah Graphics Publishers

Urdu Literature Corpus

This corpus contains 16,17,074 tokens of multiple Urdu literature books published by Bismillah Graphics Publishers.

License: CC-BY-NC-4.0

Locale: ur

Task: OTH

Format: TXT

Size: 2.86 MB

Weekly Kaleem Magazine Multan

Kaleem Magazine Urdu Corpus

This corpus is a collection of around 1.4 million tokens of Urdu language. The data was extracted from the archives of a famous Urdu magazine "Kaleem" published weekly from last 30 years. This corpus contains work of literature including stories, short stories, news, poetry, literary reports, fiction, non-fiction, and travelogues. The data is being shared with the approval of the authors. It aims to support linguistic research, language technology development, and cultural preservation.

License: CC-BY-NC-4.0

Locale: urd

Task: NLP

Format: TXT

Size: 2.74 MB

Kaleem Art Press

Jhoke Publisher Multan’s Saraiki Newspaper Corpus

Jhoke Publisher Multan’s Saraiki Newspaper Corpus (~1.25M tokens) is a normalized UTF-8 collection of Saraiki newspaper.

License: CC-BY-NC-4.0

Locale: skr

Task: NLP

Format: TXT

Size: 2.30 MB

Aim Foundation

Dari Literature Corpus by Anjuman e Adabi Nayestan

A ~1 M-token Dari (Afghan Persian) literary corpus compiled by Anjuman e Adabi Nayestan, covering prose, poetry, and cultural texts in Perso-Arabic script.

License: CC-BY-NC-4.0

Locale: prs

Task: NLP

Format: TXT

Size: 12.67 MB

MirasAI

Associated Press Pakistan 74.4 Million Urdu Corpus

A 74.4M-word, 267,887-article Urdu news corpus from Associated Press Pakistan (2015-2026), released for non-commercial research with APP permission.

License: CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0

Locale: urd

Task: NLP

Format: TXT

Size: 143.39 MB

Anjuman e Katib

Persian Literature Corpus by Najwai Sukhan

A curated Persian literary corpus of ~1.26M tokens spanning literature, poetry, educational writing, and culturally significant texts.

License: CC-BY-NC-4.0

Locale: fas

Task: NLP

Format: TXT

Size: 38.62 MB

Chishti Sons

Chishti Sons Punjabi Literature Corpus

This corpus is a collection of more than one million tokens of Western Punjabi language. The data was produced under the Chishti Sons publishing agency. The corpus contains work of literature including short stories, stories, fiction, non-fiction, and other literary books. The data is being shared with the approval of the authors. It aims to support linguistic research, language technology development, and cultural preservation.

License: CC-BY-NC-4.0

Locale: pnb

Task: NLP

Format: TXT

Size: 1.65 MB

MEDIAMEN

Mediamen Punjabi Literature Corpus

This corpus is a collection of one million tokens of Western Punjabi language. The data was produced under the Mediamen publishing agency over the last ten years. The corpus contains work of literature including short stories, novels, fiction, non-fiction, and dramas. The data is being shared with the approval of the authors. It aims to support linguistic research, language technology development, and cultural preservation.

License: CC-BY-NC-4.0

Locale: pnb

Task: NLP

Format: TXT

Size: 1.82 MB

Anjuman e Katib

Anjuman-e-Katib Farsi/Persian Literature Corpus

This corpus is a collection of more than one million tokens of Farsi/Persian language. The corpus contains work of literature including novels, fictional and non-fictional, poems and many more. the data is shared with the approval of the authors and aims to support linguistic research, language technology development and its preservation.

License: CC-BY-NC-4.0

Locale: fas

Task: NLP

Format: TXT

Size: 2.82 MB

MirasAI

Associated Press Pakistan 21.4 Million Pashto Corpus

Pashto news corpus from the Associated Press of Pakistan, containing 99,495 articles and 21.4 million words from 2015–2026.

License: CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0

Locale: pus

Task: NLP

Format: TXT

Size: 38.81 MB

PROXIMA

PII Redact Urdu UOPF

Curated Urdu dataset of 100,000 records with fabricated PII spans, for training and evaluating privacy span detection across 12 domains.

License: CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0

Locale: urd

Task: NLP

Format: JSONL

Size: 5.77 MB

Balochistan Educational and Cultural Organization

Western Balochi Literature Cropus

A cleaned literary corpus in Western Balochi (Rakhshani) including articles, research, translations, and creative literature. (~1.1 m tokens)

License: CC-BY-NC-4.0

Locale: bgn

Task: NLP

Format: TXT

Size: 2.26 MB

Balochistan Educational and Cultural Organization

NAWA-E-WATAN Balochi Newspaper Corpus

A ~1.02M-token Balochi newspaper corpus from NAWA-E-WATAN, representing contemporary journalistic and public discourse.

License: CC-BY-NC-4.0

Locale: bgn

Task: NLP

Format: TXT

Size: 1.43 MB

MEDIAMEN

English–Punjabi (Shahmukhi) Parallel Sentences Corpus (Mediamen Archives)

This parallel sentences corpus containing 30,405 aligned sentence pairs with a total of approximately 0.62 million tokens, curated from the archival materials of Mediamen (Advertising Agency). The sentences were professionally translated from English into Punjabi (Shahmukhi) and are intended to support machine translation, linguistic research, and Punjabi language technology development, particularly for real-world and contemporary language use.

License: CC-BY-NC-4.0

Locale: en-PK, pnb

Task: MT

Format: CSV

Size: 1.08 MB

Tamahi Suneha Magazine

Punjabi Literature Corpus

This corpus contains 10,39,430 tokens of Punjabi Shahmukhi script.

License: CC-BY-NC-4.0

Locale: pa-PK

Task: OTH

Format: TXT

Size: 1.83 MB

Keblagh e Azergi

Elkhani Hazargi Literature Corpus

Hazargi literary corpus (~0.5M tokens) of poetry, folklore, and prose texts representing Hazara linguistic and cultural heritage.

License: CC-BY-NC-4.0

Locale: haz

Task: NLP

Format: TXT

Size: 2.46 MB

Kaleem Art Press

Multilingual Religious Parallel Corpus (Kaleem Art Press)

This dataset is a multilingual parallel sentences corpus containing 6,465 aligned sentence units with approximately 0.98 million words, curated from Kaleem Art Press archives. It includes parallel religious text data in Arabic, Urdu, Saraiki (standard and dialectal), Punjabi (Shahmukhi), and English, supporting research in machine translation, comparative linguistics, digital humanities, and low-resource language studies.

License: CC-BY-SA-4.0

Locale: mul

Task: MT

Format: CSV

Size: 2.27 MB

PROXIMA

Synthetic Urdu 2

Synthetic Urdu sentences audio dataset of 85,327 verse style audio-text pairs.

License: CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0

Locale: urd

Task: TTS

Format: Parquet

Size: 14.80 GB

Baloch Publishers Multan

Baloch Publishers Saraiki Literature Corpus

This corpus is a collection of one million tokens of Saraiki language. The data was produced under the Baloch Publishers over the last ten years. The corpus contains work of literature including dictionaries, short stories, novels, fiction, non-fiction, and travelogue. The data is being shared with the approval of the authors. It aims to support linguistic research, language technology development, and cultural preservation.

License: CC-BY-NC-4.0

Locale: skr

Task: NLP

Format: TXT

Size: 2.04 MB

Forum for Language Initiatives

Khowar Literature Corpus by FLI

A multi-genre Khowar language corpus designed for linguistic research, NLP applications, and cultural documentation.

License: CC-BY-NC-4.0

Locale: khw

Task: NLP

Format: TXT

Size: 244.85 KB

PROXIMA

Urdu AI Generated Quotes & Aphorisms

A collection of 3,317 AI-generated Urdu quotes and aphorisms for text-generation and language modeling research.

License: CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0

Locale: urd

Task: NLG

Format: JSON

Size: 174.90 KB

PROXIMA

Urdu OCR Multi Source Dataset (Proxima AI)

Urdu OCR dataset of 40,769 image text pairs compiled from scanned, printed, synthetic, and scene text sources.

License: CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0

Locale: urd

Task: CV

Format: PARQUET

Size: 436.48 MB

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Rana Printers Urdu Literature Corpus

Kaleem Art Press Urdu Literature Corpus

Urdu Literature Corpus

Kaleem Magazine Urdu Corpus

Jhoke Publisher Multan’s Saraiki Newspaper Corpus

Dari Literature Corpus by Anjuman e Adabi Nayestan

Associated Press Pakistan 74.4 Million Urdu Corpus

Persian Literature Corpus by Najwai Sukhan

Chishti Sons Punjabi Literature Corpus

Mediamen Punjabi Literature Corpus

Anjuman-e-Katib Farsi/Persian Literature Corpus

Associated Press Pakistan 21.4 Million Pashto Corpus

PII Redact Urdu UOPF

Western Balochi Literature Cropus

NAWA-E-WATAN Balochi Newspaper Corpus

English–Punjabi (Shahmukhi) Parallel Sentences Corpus (Mediamen Archives)

Punjabi Literature Corpus

Elkhani Hazargi Literature Corpus

Multilingual Religious Parallel Corpus (Kaleem Art Press)

Synthetic Urdu 2

Baloch Publishers Saraiki Literature Corpus

Khowar Literature Corpus by FLI

Urdu AI Generated Quotes & Aphorisms

Urdu OCR Multi Source Dataset (Proxima AI)