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Mehmood Jan Afridi was gunned down in the city of Kalat in Baluchistan where he worked for the Urdu language newspaper The Daily Intekhab.
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On Urdu-language TV news channels Dawn News and Geo News, it was very low in the running order this morning, and it is absent altogether from Urdu-language newspapers.
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In recent months, on-site investigations of more than 100 of the roughly 2, 300 facilities in the United States, selected randomly, have been conducted under Mr. Gaubatz's supervision by trained counterintelligence professionals, many of whom have Arabic, Farsi or Urdu language skills.
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According to the Times, he told an Urdu-language broadcast he should have been sentenced by a magistrate but pressure had been placed on the courts to charge him with a more serious offence because of his support for Palestinians.
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The peer is said to have told an Urdu-language broadcaster in Pakistan that he should have been sentenced by a magistrate but pressure had been placed on the courts to charge him with a more serious offence because of his support for Palestinians.
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Meaning corn flower in Urdu, the native language of the region, Gul Makai is a name taken from a character in a Pashtun folk story.
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The governor not only proposed amendments but also stood up against the cruelty of the law calling it "black law" in Urdu meaning "dark law" in the language's context.
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The data from the 2011 census showed the vast majority of Manchester's residents used English as their main language, but also reported significant numbers using either Urdu, Polish, Arabic, Farsi, Somali, Panjabi or Bengali as their first tongue.
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Despite their proximity and the absence of a language barrier -- Hindustani, an amalgam of Hindi and Urdu, is understood by both north Indians and Pakistanis -- only 1.2% of Pakistan's exports go to India, while the import tally is a mere 0.7%.
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