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  2. Urdu - Wikipedia

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    Urdu (اُردُو, ⓘ; ALA-LC: Urdū) is an Indo-Aryan language spoken chiefly in South Asia. It is the national language and lingua franca of Pakistan, where it is also an official language alongside English.

  3. Kho kho - Wikipedia

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    Kho kho is a traditional South Asian sport that dates to ancient India. [1] [2] It is the second-most popular traditional tag game in the Indian subcontinent after kabaddi. [3] Kho kho is played on a rectangular court with a central lane connecting two poles which are at either end of the court. During the game, nine players from the chasing ...

  4. Ijarah - Wikipedia

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    Ijarah, ( Arabic: الإجارة, al-Ijārah, "to give something on rent" [1] [2] or "providing services and goods temporarily for a wage" [3] (a noun, not a verb)), is a term of fiqh (Islamic jurisprudence) [1] and product in Islamic banking and finance . In traditional fiqh, it means a contract for the hiring of persons or renting/leasing of ...

  5. Pashtunwali - Wikipedia

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    Barakzai. v. t. e. Pashtunwali ( Pashto: پښتونوالی ), also known as Pakhtunwali and Afghaniyat, [1] is the traditional lifestyle or a code of honour and tribal code of the Pashtun people, from Afghanistan and Pakistan, by which they live. Many scholars widely have interpreted it as being "the way of the Pashtuns" or "the code of life". [2]

  6. LGBT rights in Pakistan - Wikipedia

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    Part IX 227. Islam is the official state religion, and all laws, rules, regulations and other such legislation must be compatible with Islam, as defined by a government appointed Islamic council. Discrimination protections. No civil rights legislation exists to prohibit public or private sector discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation.

  7. Hindustani phonology - Wikipedia

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    Hindustani is the lingua franca of northern India and Pakistan, and through its two standardized registers, Hindi and Urdu, a co-official language of India and co-official and national language of Pakistan respectively. Phonological differences between the two standards are minimal.

  8. Urdu alphabet - Wikipedia

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    The Urdu alphabet ( Urdu: اردو حروفِ تہجی, romanized : urdū ḥurūf-i tahajjī) is the right-to-left alphabet used for writing Urdu. It is a modification of the Persian alphabet, which itself is derived from the Arabic script. It has official status in the republics of Pakistan, India and South Africa.

  9. Council of Islamic Ideology - Wikipedia

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    Pakistan portal. v. t. e. Council of Islamic Ideology ( CII; ( Urdu: اِسلامی نظریاتی کونسل) is a constitutional body of Pakistan, responsible for giving legal advice on Islamic issues to the government and the Parliament. [1] This body was founded in 1962 under the government of Ayub Khan.