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Manchester Metropolitan University has become the first higher education institute in the UK to offer the chance to earn a degree in Urdu. From September it will offer the language to students. While shorter courses are available at other universities, this is the first time Urdu has been included in the title of an official degree. About 100 million people speak it in the world, including 400,000 in the UK. Athar Ahmad reports.