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  2. Urdu movement - Wikipedia

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    The phrase Zaban-e Urdu-e Mualla written in Urdū Lashkari Zaban ("Battalionese language") title in Nastaliq script.. The Urdu movement was a socio-political movement aimed at making the Urdu standard of the Hindostani language as the universal lingua-franca and symbol of the cultural and political identity of the Muslim communities of the Indian subcontinent during the British Raj.

  3. Muhajir culture - Wikipedia

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    Muhajir culture (Urdu: مہاجر ثقافت) is the culture of the various Muslims of different ethnicities who migrated mainly from North India (after the partition of British India and subsequent establishment of the Dominion of Pakistan) in 1947 generally to Karachi, the federal capital of Pakistan and before 1947 Karachi is the capital of Sindh.

  4. Punjabi Muslims - Wikipedia

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    Politics. Punjab portal. v. t. e. Punjabi Muslims ( Punjabi: پنجابی مُسَّلماں; romanized: Pañjābī Musal'mã) are ethnic Punjabis who are adherents of Islam; they constitute the largest religious subdivision within the Punjabi people with a population of more than 112 million.

  5. Jang Media Group - Wikipedia

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    Jang Media Group ( جنگ میڈیا گروپ ), also known as Geo Group, is a Pakistani media conglomerate and a subsidiary of Dubai-based company Independent Media Corporation. Its headquarters is in Printing House, Karachi, Pakistan. It is Pakistan 's largest group of newspapers and the publisher of the Urdu language newspaper the Daily Jang.

  6. Culture of Pakistan - Wikipedia

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    Culture of Pakistan. The culture of Pakistan ( Urdu: پاکستانی ثقافت Pākistāni S̱aqāfat) is based in the Indo-Persian cultural matrix that constitutes a foundation plank of South Asian Muslim identity. [1] The region has formed a distinct cultural unit within the main cultural complex of South Asia, Middle East and Central Asia.

  7. List of Punjabi-language newspapers - Wikipedia

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    Pehredar is one of the leading Punjabi daily newspapers published in India with a functioning base at Ludhiana. 'Hak Sach Da Pehredar' (ਹੱਕ ਸੱਚ ਦਾ ਪਹਿਰੇਦਾਰ) is the tagline of this newspaper. Daily Sanjhi Khabar: Published in Chandigarh. Daily Ajit: the largest circulated Punjabi newspaper, published from ...

  8. Kasur - Wikipedia

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    UTC+5 ( PST) Calling code. 049. Website. kasur .punjab .gov .pk. Kasur ( Punjabi, Urdu: قصور; pronounced [kəsuːɾ] ⓘ; also romanized as Qasūr; from pluralized Arabic word Qasr meaning "palaces" or "forts" [4]) is a city to the south of Lahore, in the Pakistani province of Punjab. The city serves as the headquarters of Kasur District.

  9. Hindi–Urdu controversy - Wikipedia

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    The Hindi–Urdu controversy arose in 19th century colonial India out of the debate over whether Modern Standard Hindi or Standard Urdu should be chosen as a national language . Hindi and Urdu are mutually intelligible as spoken languages, to the extent that they are sometimes considered to be dialects or registers of a single spoken language ...