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Malik Riaz. Malik Riaz Hussain ( Urdu, Punjabi: ملک ریاض حسین; born February 8, 1954 [1] in Sialkot) is a Pakistani real estate tycoon who is the founder of Bahria Town, the largest privately held real estate development company in Pakistan. His real estate projects are associated with the concept of gated communities, where the ...
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] These books primarily consist of Urdu, Hindi and Persian literature and encompass ...
Saadat Hassan Manto was born in Paproudi village of Samrala, in the Ludhiana district of the Punjab, India in a Muslim family of barristers on 11 May 1912. [12] He belonged to a Kashmiri trading family that had settled in Amritsar in the early nineteenth century and taken up the legal profession. His father, Khwaja Ghulam Hasan, was a session ...
Mukhtar Mai. Mukhtaran Bibi ( Urdu: مختاراں بی بی; born c. 1972 [1] ), now known as Mukhtār Mā'ī, [1] is a Pakistani human rights activist from the village of Meerwala, located in the rural tehsil of Jatoi in the Muzaffargarh District of Punjab, Pakistan. In June 2002, Mā'ī was the victim of a gang-rape sanctioned by a tribal ...
Lakshmana (birthplace: Ayodhya), brother and close ... the Dainik Jagran media group and it Hindi-language ... Urdu poet; Kaifi Azmi, Urdu and Hindi ...
The 'Property Brothers' base their own success on years of experience -- and some would-be investors may find one piece of their advice hard to swallow.
Urdu is spoken as a first language by nearly 70 million people and as a second language by more than 100 million people, predominantly in Pakistan and India. It is the official state language of Pakistan and is also officially recognized, or "scheduled," in the constitution of India.
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 ...