Skip to content

Explore Features Learn Kids Pricing

Explore the library Features Learn by field For children Echo Pro For families For schools and institutes Partners Investors Write for EchoReads About Questions and answers Get the app

Urdu and English magazines, digests, books and children’s stories in one app, typeset the way they are printed. Browse the library free; Echo Pro opens the reading, the audio and offline downloads.

Download on theApp Store Get it onGoogle Play

The app

Explore the library
Features
Learn by field
For children
Echo Pro
Get the app

EchoReads

For families
For schools and institutes
Partners
Investors
Write for EchoReads
About
Press
Questions and answers
Support

Legal

Privacy policy
Terms of use
Delete your account
Delete your data

© 2026 EchoReads. Reading is what a subscription buys; browsing is free for everyone.

support@echoreads.online·WhatsApp +92 332 800 1541

Explore Features Learn Kids Pricing

Thought and society

فکر و معاشرہ

The arguments a Muslim family meets at work, at school and online, taken seriously rather than waved away.

Start with this month’s issue.

The library is open to look through right now, with no account. When you want to read it, Echo Pro is one tap inside the app.

Get the app Browse the library

An open old book displays Urdu text "Elegy of Silence" and "Law of Surveillance and Seizure, Rowlatt Act 2.0," surrounded by torn papers featuring icons of surveillance, chains, a broken phone, a syringe, and silhouettes of a man and woman.

Article · Jul 2026

خاموشی کا نوحہ

Idrak

Left: dark ruins, chained books, old lantern. Right: bright city, new books, laptop, microscope, plant. Central Urdu title: 'From Stagnation and Imitation to Research and Creation'.

Article · Jul 2026

جمود و تقلید سے تحقیق وتخلیق تک

Idrak

Illustration of Muhammad Iqbal and Swami Vivekananda with Islamic landmarks on the left and Hindu temple architecture on the right. Urdu text is centered above them.

Article · Jul 2026

علامہ اقبال اور سوامی وویکانند کے تہذیبی ماڈل

Idrak

A poster titled "BREAKING THE CYCLE OF ACID ATTACKS," showing a woman with acid on her face, a person with a raised fist against a city skyline, a small plant growing from cracked earth, and calls to action against violence.

Article · Jul 2026

Breaking the cycle of acid attacks

Current & Social Issues

A graphic illustrating the hijab controversy in India, featuring the Supreme Court, a cracked Indian flag, scales of justice, the Constitution, a broken "Secularism" tablet, and Urdu text translating to "The Hijab Controversy and Indian Secularism Unveiled."

Article · Jun 2026

حجاب کا تنازع اور بھارتی سیکولرازم بے نقاب

Current & Social Issues

Infographic from ICIMOD detailing the alarming decline in snow cover in Pakistan and the Hindu Kush Himalaya region, its severe impacts on water, agriculture, and the economy, and outlining solutions for climate resilience.

Article · May 2026

Water security challenge

Current & Social Issues

Muhammad Iqbal's portrait superimposed on a picturesque Kashmir landscape with a lake and mountains, featuring symbolic icons of poetry, oppression, and freedom, and Urdu text about Kashmir.

Article · May 2026

کشمیریوں کی جدو جہد آزادی اور علامہ اقبالؒ

Current & Social Issues

Article · Apr 2026

Custodial torture — a constitutional shame

Current & Social Issues

Magazine cover for HamQadam, April 2026, titled "INFLATION RISES" featuring an oil tanker on the sea.

Article · Apr 2026

Deterrence without restraint

Current & Social Issues

Cover for HamQadam magazine, April 2026, featuring an oil tanker at sea with the headline "INFLATION RISES."

Article · Apr 2026

Urumqi talks

Current & Social Issues

Silhouetted person leaning by a gas pump at night, with motorcycles and old buildings.

Article · Mar 2026

Imminent energy crisis: key challenges

Current & Social Issues

A person examines a large antique book in an old library with bookshelves and an arched window.

Article · Mar 2026

When power overrides principle

Current & Social Issues

Two men in clerical attire converse on a stone bench while students walk past in a traditional tiled courtyard.

Article · Mar 2026

A new supreme leader in Tehran

Current & Social Issues

A hand adjusts a paper notice on a cork bulletin board, with an old "LEGAL PATHS" book on the floor below in a concrete hallway.

Article · Mar 2026

Workplace harassment

Current & Social Issues

A Muslim man in a white thobe and kufi walks on a wet street away from a wall graffitied with a crescent moon, star, and "GO HOME," near burning trash and a book.

Article · Feb 2026

When prejudice becomes policy

Editorial

A stone hut with a green flag and an Arabic marker in a barren mountain desert, with vehicles kicking up dust in the distant valley.

Article · Jan 2026

Global risks 2026: a volatile world

Current & Social Issues

Flag of Pakistan.

Article · Jan 2026

A New Paradigm in Nuclear Rivalries

Current & Social Issues

Poem title "A Mother's Heart" by Hani Irshad Nawab, with a photo of a mother comforting her daughter.

Article · Dec 2025

A Mother's Heart

Culture

A hooded figure carves a question mark into a crumbling stone wall inscribed with "ISLAMOPHOBIA," revealing glowing scales of justice through an archway at sunset.

Article · Dec 2025

Islamophobia Questions Value System

Economics & Politics

Magazine cover for 'HamQadam' asking 'Are Pakistan & Bangladesh Moving Toward Strategic Convergence?', featuring two leaders seated between small flags of both nations, with larger flags in the background.

Article · Dec 2025

Old Wine in a New Bottle: Understanding the 2025 U.S.–India Defence Framework

Culture

A promotional image for HamQadam magazine, titled "Best AI Tools for Education," featuring a brain graphic, various AI app icons, and text listing articles for the December 2025 issue.

Article · Dec 2025

ثقافتی تنوع اور قومی یکجہتی

Culture

Gritty black and white image of a person with hands covering their eyes and forehead, surrounded by flying dark butterflies.

Article · Nov 2025

Echoes of a shattered soul

Culture

Circular sticker with "DEMOCRAZY demonstration of crazy" on a distressed blue wall.

Article · Nov 2025

دنیا کی نام نہاد سب سے بڑی جمہوریت

Lifestyle

Magazine cover with a hand pointing upwards against a sunburst background, featuring the title "The Political System of the Noble Messenger" in red.

Article · Nov 2025

نئی نسل کی بے راہ روی اسباب و علاج

Idrak

Flag of Pakistan, green with a white vertical stripe, crescent, and star.

Article · Jun 2025

Deadly Suicide Bombing Targets Army Convoy in Northwest Pakistan, Killing 13 Soldiers

Current & Social Issues

Waving flag of Pakistan with a white vertical stripe, crescent moon, and star on a green field.

Article · Jun 2025

Pakistan reels under monsoon deluge as death toll climbs

Current & Social Issues

Waving flag of Pakistan.

Article · Jun 2025

خاندانی نظام کی تعمیر میں قرآن کا کردار

Lifestyle

Flag of Pakistan.

Article · Jun 2025

انسانی حقوق کا بین الاقوامی منشور اور اسلامی تعلیمات

Current & Social Issues

A Muslim mother teaches her three children from a book in a cozy room with Islamic decor.

Article · Jul 2024

گھر تو آخر اپنا ہے

Culture

A stressed student sits on stairs, overwhelmed by mountains of books and students in graduation robes struggling with academic pressure.

Article · Jun 2024

Facing Life’s Hard Truths: Lessons Beyond The Classroom

Lifestyle