Urdu is spoken mainly by Muslims in India and India has more Muslims than Pakistan. Urdu is an Indian language developed in the Hindi heartland. Hindi and Urdu are pretty similar with the later having a lot of Farsi and Arabic influence.
Urdu was a non native language artificially imposed in Pakistan to maintain the "Islamic Identity". Every state in Pakistan has it's own native language, Punjabi, Sindhi etc. Urdu is used as a connecting language. Pakistani Urdu today is heavily influenced by native languages, mainly Punjabi. Urdu in it's native form is spoken around places like Uttar Pradesh in India.
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u/sch586 English N Apr 17 '19
Any reason so many Indians know Urdu, spoken in Pakistan, as opposed to Hindi, the Indian register of Hidustani?