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  2. Ghalib - Wikipedia

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    Ghalib was a chronicler of a turbulent period. One by one, Ghalib saw the bazaars – Khas Bazaar, Urdu Bazaar, Kharam-ka Bazaar, disappear, and whole mohallas (localities) and katras (lanes) vanish. The havelis (mansions) of his friends were razed to the ground. Ghalib wrote that Delhi had become a desert.

  3. Persian and Urdu - Wikipedia

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    Persian and Urdu are distinct languages. Persian is classified as an Iranian language, whereas Urdu is an Indo-Aryan language. They fall under the larger grouping of the Indo-Iranian languages, and hence share some linguistic features due to common descent. However, the majority of influence from Persian is direct, through a process often ...

  4. 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 ...

  5. Urdu literature - Wikipedia

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    Urdu literature (Urdu: ادبیاتِ اُردُو, “Adbiyāt-i Urdū”) comprises the literary works, written in the Urdu language.While, It tends to be dominated by poetry, especially the verse forms of the ghazal (غزل) and nazm (نظم), it has expanded into other styles of writing, including that of the short story, or afsana (افسانہ).

  6. Sunnah - Wikipedia

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    In the pre-Islamic period, sunnah was used to mean "manner of acting", whether good or bad. [11] During the early Islamic period, the term referred to any good precedent set by people of the past, including both Muhammad, [11] and his companions. [3] [12] In addition, the sunnah of Muhammad was not necessarily associated with hadith. [13]

  7. Languages of Pakistan - Wikipedia

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    English is a co-official language of Pakistan and is widely used in the executive, legislative and judicial branches as well as to some extent in the officer ranks of Pakistan's armed forces. Pakistan's Constitution and laws were written in English and are now being re-written in the local languages.

  8. Languages with legal status in India - Wikipedia

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    The official languages of British India before independence were English, Standard Urdu and later Modern Standard Hindi, with English being used for purposes at the central level. [7] The origins of official Hindi usage traces back to 1900, when MacDonnell issued an order, which allowed the “permissive — but not exclusive — use” of ...

  9. Ayub Khan - Wikipedia

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    Ayub Khan. Mohammad Ayub Khan[c] (14 May 1907 – 19 April 1974), better known as Ayub Khan, was a Pakistani army officer who served as the second president of Pakistan from 1958 to 1969. He previously served as the third Commander-in-Chief of the Pakistan Army from 1951 to 1958. Born in the North-West Frontier Province, Khan was educated from ...