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Noori Nastaleeq is a nastaleeq used in Pakistan. [1] It was first created as a digital font in 1981 as the collaboration between Ahmed Mirza Jamil and Monotype Imaging. [2] In 1982, the Government of Pakistan named the nastaleeq as an "Invention of National Importance". [2] Daily Jang is a user of the nastaleeq. [3]
Urdu was the dominant native language among Christians of Karachi and Lahore in present-day Pakistan and Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh Rajasthan in India, during the early part of the 19th and 20th century, and is still used by Christians in these places. Pakistani and Indian Christians often used the Roman script for writing Urdu.
The Constitution of India came into force, and India declared itself a Republic on 26 January 1950, a day thereafter celebrated annually as Republic Day in India. The Constitution had been drafted by the Constituent Assembly headed by Dr. B.R. Ambedkar which was set up when India gained its independence from the British in 1947.
Geographical distribution of Urdu in India and Pakistan. There are over 100 million native speakers of Urdu in India and Pakistan together: there were 50.8 million Urdu speakers in India (4.34% of the total population) as per the 2011 census; [3] and approximately 16 million in Pakistan in 2006. [131]
Hyderabad (Sindhi: حيدرآباد ; Urdu: حيدرآباد; / ˈ h aɪ d ər ə b ɑː d /) [4] is a city and the capital of Hyderabad Division in the Sindh province of Pakistan.It is the second-largest city in Sindh, and the 7th largest in Pakistan.
January 26: At the Dhaka session of the ruling Muslim League party, prime minister Khawaja Nazimuddin declares Urdu the national language of the state of Pakistan. February 6: George VI, King of Pakistan, dies at Sandringham House aged 56. Queen Elizabeth II becomes Queen of Pakistan.
Layout of Urdu Phonetic Keyboard. Along with the UZT keyboards, phonetic keyboards have been developed for Urdu. Phonetic keyboards works with the sound of the words, e.g. 'a' button of the English keyboard contain an Urdu word which is similar to the sound of 'a' and same is the case for other characters.
The Urdu Wikipedia (Urdu: اردو ویکیپیڈیا), started in January 2004, is the Standard Urdu-language edition of Wikipedia, a free, open-content encyclopedia. [1] [2] As of 1 March 2025, it has 218,309 articles, 191,144 registered users and 7,561 files, and it is the 54th largest edition of Wikipedia by article count, and ranks 20th in terms of depth among Wikipedias with over 150,000 ...