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Rekhta (website) Rekhta is an Urdu literary web portal started by Rekhta Foundation, a non-profit organisation dedicated to the preservation and promotion of the Urdu literature. [4] The Rekhta Library Project, its books preservation initiative, has successfully digitized approximately 200,000 books over a span of ten years. [5]
Total population; 68.62 million (2019): Regions with significant populations; India (diasporic Urdu Belt, a regional belt that consists of Hindi-Urdu belt states such as Uttar Pradesh, Kashmir, Bihar-mostly Patna and Darbanga, Khandesh, coastal Malwa region, Shimla district and Kangra district and other Indian states, many speakers live in various cities in South India, mostly Hyderabad ...
Lahore is the largest Punjabi-speaking city in the world. According to the 2017 Pakistani census 12.6% speak Urdu, 2.7% Pashto, 1.02% Saraiki and 2.78% other mother tongues. Urdu and English are used as official languages and as mediums of instruction and media administration. However, Punjabi is also taught at graduation level and used in ...
Conversely, colloquial registers of Hindi and Urdu are almost completely mutually intelligible, and are sometimes classified as one language, Hindustani. Such rankings should be used with caution, because it is not possible to devise a coherent set of linguistic criteria for distinguishing languages in a dialect continuum.
Islamabad (/ ɪ z ˈ l ɑː m ə b æ d /; Urdu: اسلامآباد, romanized: Islāmābād, listen ⓘ; transl. 'City of Islam') is the capital city of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. It is the country's ninth-most populous city with a population of over 1.2 million people [5] [9] and is federally administered by the Pakistani government ...
Urdu (one of the main languages of South Asia), which uses a calligraphic version of the Arabic-based Nastaʿlīq script, requires a great number of ligatures in digital typography. InPage, a widely used desktop publishing tool for Urdu, uses Nastaliq fonts with over 20,000 ligatures.
Kutub Khana Khas Anjuman-e-Taraqqi-e-Urdu Pakistan, Baba-e-Urdu Road, Saddar Town; Liaquat Hall Library, Abdullah Haroon Road, Saddar Town; Liaquat Memorial Library, Stadium Road, Gulshan Town; Lyari Municipal Library, Old Salater House, Lyari Town; Lyari Text Book Library, Chakiwara, Lyari Town; Main Library, Aga Khan University, Stadium Road ...
The princely states were left free to make whatever arrangement they wished with either India or Pakistan. The Nizam ruled over more than 16 million people and 82,698 square miles (214,190 km 2 ) of territory when the British withdrew from the sub-continent in 1947. [92]