<P> Hindustani is the linga franca of North India and Pakistan, as well as the official language of both countries, under the standard registers Hindi and Urdu, respectively . Standard Urdu is mutually intelligible with Standard Hindi . Hindustani is also widely understood and used as a lingua franca amongst South Asians including Sri Lankans, Nepalis and Bangladeshis, and is the language of Bollywood, which is enjoyed throughout much of the subcontinent . </P> <P> Apart from Hindustani, India and Pakistan also share a distribution of the Punjabi language (written in the Gurmukhi script in Indian Punjab, and the Shahmukhi script in Pakistani Punjab), Kashmiri language and Sindhi language, mainly due to population exchange . These languages belong to a common Indo - Aryan family that are spoken in countries across the subcontinent . </P> <P> Some Indian and Pakistani people marry across the border at instances . </P> <P> In April 2010 a high - profile Pakistani cricketer, Shoaib Malik married the Indian tennis star Sania Mirza . The wedding received much media attention and was said to transfix both India and Pakistan . </P>

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