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There are millions of Pakistanis whose native language is not Urdu, but because they have studied in Urdu medium schools, they can read and write Urdu along with their native language.

Hindi and Urdu are one language.

Indian madrasahs also teach Arabic as well as Urdu.

Writing system Urdu script Urdu is written right to left in an extension of the Persian alphabet, which is itself an extension of the Arabic alphabet.

Therefore, Urdu resorted to lithography while other languages adopted typeset.

With the advent of computer, Urdu writing got great boost.

Languages Native Punjabi Urdu, with command of English, written spoken.

Microsoft has included Urdu language support in all new versions of Windows and both Windows Vista and Microsoft Office 2007 are available in Urdu through Language Interface Pack support.

The use of Roman Urdu was common in contexts such as product labels.

After the news is received in English from its part time reporters, it is translated into Urdu and Katibs writers, dedicated to the ancient art of Urdu calligraphy, pen down the whole story on paper.

The Ministry is examining the possibility of having it translated to Urdu at least.

The country report has not been translated into Urdu or any of the regional languages.

This paper has maintained its original look and had not compromised with the Urdu computer font.

Urdu type setting was very difficult also, typeset work looked ugly in comparison to handwritten work.

A number of daily newspapers and several monthly magazines in Urdu are published in these states.

Habib R. Sulemani says, The younger generation of Urdu speaking people around the world, especially Pakistan, are using Romanised Urdu on the Internet and it has become essential for them, because they use the Internet and English is its language.

Moreover, the younger generation of those who are from the English medium schools or settled in the west, can speak Urdu but can t write it in the traditional Arabic script and thus Roman Urdu is a blessing for such a population.

We've been able to license The 99 comic books into eight languages so far Chinese, Indonesian, Hindi, Urdu, Turkish.

The local populace can easily communicate in Urdu, and a significant portion also understands and speaks English very well.

His masnavi Mu'amlat e Ishq (The Stages of Love) is one of the greatest known love poems in Urdu literature.

Services Institute of Medical Sciences (Urdu ), established in 2003, is a public school of medicine located in Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan.

Hazro (Urdu حضرو) is a town located at north west of Pakistan in Attock District of the Punjab province Pakistan.

The Convention has been translated into Urdu, the national languages and regional languages such as Balochi, Punjabi, Pashto and Sindhi.

With a circulation of approximately 23,000 the paper covers news in Urdu language across a wide spectrum including politics, culture and sports.

Until the late 19th century, all proceedings and court transactions in this register of Urdu were written officially in the Persian script.

A significant number of residents also speak Urdu, due to the influx of Pakistani migrants during the late 1980s and the 1990s.

Yet, a book or newspaper written by a good katib and properly lithographed is very pleasing and beautiful computer written Urdu is no match.

In India, Urdu is spoken in places where there are large Muslim minorities or cities that were bases for Muslim Empires in the past.

For instance, historically Arabic has been the prime language of administration there, instead of the Persian and Urdu languages used in the nearby Muslim states.

This Urdu language newspaper was established in 1927 by Chenab Syed Asmadullah Sahi and has been published daily in the Chennai city of India ever since.

Due to immigration, it was reported in 2007 that around 800,000 school students spoke a foreign language at home, the most common being Punjabi and Urdu.

A Desertful of Roses , a site about Ghalib's Urdu ghazals by Dr. Frances W. Pritchett, Professor of Modern Indic Languages at Columbia University, New York, NY, USA.

Muhammad Khan Junejo (Urdu ), (Sindhi محمد خان جوڻيجو) August 18, 1932 March 16, 1993) was the tenth Prime Minister of Pakistan, and an influential Sindhi figure in Pakistan.

Roman Urdu has been used since the days of the British Raj, partly as a result of the availability and low cost of Roman movable type for printing presses.

The question of Palestine was also regularly covered in all other official languages, as well as in non official languages, such as Bahasa Indonesia, Bangla, Hindi, Turkish and Urdu.

The Honorable Justice (R) Mir Hazar Khan Khoso (Urdu, ) (born 30 September 1929), was the 23rd and caretaker Prime Minister of Pakistan, from 25 March 2013 to 5 June 2013.

Information on the dissemination of CEDAW has already been given earlier. It has been translated into Urdu and the text has been widely disseminated schools, colleges, universities, government departments, libraries etc.

It is distinct by its mixture of vocabulary from Marathi and Konkani, as well as some vocabulary from Arabic, Persian and Turkish that are not found in the standard dialect of Urdu.

In a speech before a crowd estimated at 300,000, Jinnah stated (in English) that Urdu alone should be the national language, believing a single language was needed for a nation to remain united.

Most of the nearly five million Afghan refugees of different ethnic origins (such as Pashtun, Tajik, Uzbek, Hazarvi, and Turkmen) who stayed in Pakistan for over twenty five years have also become fluent in Urdu.

Those cultural ties helped me understand the Urdu and Sindhi being spoken, and also to feel the deep urge to modernize in the Pakistani soul an urge that exists alongside the urge to reconnect with Pakistan s rich cultural past.

So although most of the population is conversant in Urdu, it is the first language of only an estimated 7 of the population who are mainly Muslim immigrants (known as Muhajir in Pakistan) from different parts of South Asia.

Cotton, textiles, sugar, cement, and chemicals play an important role in its economy. Urdu is the national language and is used as a medium of understanding and instruction throughout the country. A number of regional languages are also spoken.