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  2. Etiquette in Pakistan - Wikipedia

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    Strangers will speak with each other in the "formal" register of Urdu, and using the familiar register will be seen as very rude. [1] However, this is not the case in everyday life. In urban Sindh and other parts of the country, men and women usually lower their heads and lift their hands to their forehead to make the " adab " gesture when ...

  3. Adab (gesture) - Wikipedia

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    Adab (Hindustani: آداب , आदाब ), from the Arabic word Aadaab (آداب), meaning respect and politeness, is a hand gesture used in the Indian subcontinent, by the Urdu-speaking while greeting. [1] [2] It involves raising the right hand in front of the eyes with palm inwards, while the upper torso is bent forward.

  4. List of gestures - Wikipedia

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    Gestures are culture-specific and may convey very different meanings in different social or cultural settings. [2] Hand gestures used in the context of musical conducting are Chironomy, [3] while when used in the context of public speaking are Chironomia. Although some gestures, such as the ubiquitous act of pointing, differ little from one ...

  5. Can a goodwill letter get late payments removed from your ...

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    A goodwill letter is a formal letter sent to a creditor, lender or collection agency to request forgiveness for a late payment or other negative item on your credit report. In the letter, you ...

  6. Gesture - Wikipedia

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    Manual gesture in the sense of communicative co-speech gesture does not include the gesture-signs of sign languages, even though sign language is communicative and primarily produced using the hands, because the gestures in sign language are not used to intensify or modify the speech produced by the vocal tract, rather they communicate fully ...

  7. Urdu Dictionary Board - Wikipedia

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    The Urdu Dictionary Board (Urdu: اردو لغت بورڈ, romanized: Urdu Lughat Board) is an academic and literary institution of Pakistan, administered by National History and Literary Heritage Division of the Ministry of Information & Broadcasting. Its objective is to edit and publish a comprehensive dictionary of the Urdu language.

  8. Adab (Islam) - Wikipedia

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    The term simply meant "behavior" in pre-Islamic Arabia, although it included other norms and habits of conduct. The term does not appear very often in the 7th century (1st Islamic century). With the spread of Islam, it acquired a meaning of "practical ethics" (rather than directly religious strictures) around the 8th century.

  9. Indo-Pakistani war of 1971 - Wikipedia

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    Indian forces captured around 15,010 km 2 (5,795 sq mi) of land in the West but returned it in the 1972 Simla Agreement as a gesture of goodwill. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] [ 9 ] India retained 883 km 2 (341.1 sq mi) of the gained territory in Jammu and Kashmir while Pakistan retained 53 km 2 (20.4 sq mi) territory [ 10 ]