It is written from right to left like Arabic and Persian and in the same script. By the 18th century, Urdu became a well-developed language with a body of literature that consisted mainly of poetry.

KARACHI: The Prime Minister of Pakistan, Mr Liaquat Ali Khan … has, it is learnt … issued orders for the use of the Urdu script for giving instructions to the personnel of armed forces and ...

A village of Meenas in Rajasthan has discovered an unlikely but effective route to government jobs. It is through Urdu. Almost every young person in this village in Tonk district is in a race to learn ...

Discover some surprising facts about Urdu, including how much it has in common with other languages. Also available in Urdu with audio.

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are we never to speak again of the many Hindus who have written in Urdu or that some of our earliest Hindi manuscripts are in Perso-Arabic script?" At the same time, languages are also markers of ...

National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST-Islamabad) conferred honorary degree of Doctor of Philosophy upon the ...

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