Q7: Urdu to English translation

Understanding the topic

This passage is written in the high formal register of Urdu newspaper editorial prose, and the translation must find an English register that matches it without sliding into either casual English or archaic English.

Model translation

When the self-created dispute over Palestine was brought before the United Nations for settlement, that representative world body recognised the Palestinian people's right to self-determination and itself laid down a formula for resolving the matter. A two-state solution to the Palestine dispute was proposed, yet across the past seven decades the United Nations resolutions passed to that end were never allowed to reach the stage of implementation. On the contrary, at America's bidding Israeli forces continue to this day to make sport of the blood of unarmed and innocent Palestinians, and the territory of Gaza has been laid utterly to waste in a war that has now continued for two and a half months. In this war, with American support, Israeli forces have mercilessly killed more than twenty thousand Palestinians, including women and children, and have left no refuge safe for those who survive, who are now losing their lives to the scarcity of food and medicine as well.

How to handle a passage like this

The idiom is the marked part. The Urdu says the forces are "playing Holi" with Palestinian blood, an image of festive abandon turned to horror. A literal rendering means nothing to an English reader, and "killing" throws the figure away entirely. "Make sport of the blood of" keeps the callousness the image carries. This single choice is what the phrase "keeping in view figurative and idiomatic expressions" in the question is asking about.

Hold the register steady. Phrases like "that representative world body" and "at America's bidding" sound formal, and they should, because the Urdu is formal. Translating them down into plain speech would be accurate and still lose marks.

Keep the sentence architecture. Urdu editorial prose builds long sentences with several linked clauses. English can carry these if you use the right connectives, and breaking each one into three short sentences flattens a style the examiner is asking you to preserve.