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Documents the community and government open-source responses to commercial Nastaliq in mid-2000s Pakistan; its…
Pak Nastaleeq is a Nastaliq typeface from Pakistan, associated with Lateef Sagar Shaikh, Mohsin Shafeeque Hijazee, first documented in 2005. Unicode OpenType Nastaliq; two attributions circulate — the volunteer PakType project (SourceForge, since 2004-02-28, later withdrawn from its catalogue) and Mohsin Shafeeque Hijazee at the government's Center of Excellence for Urdu Informatics (2005, per Devroye and per the analysed binary). Documents the community and government open-source responses to commercial Nastaliq in mid-2000s Pakistan; its withdrawal shows the difficulty of volunteer Nastaliq maintenance It is no longer distributed by its original publisher. This page is part of the rtlfonts.com research archive: every claim above is backed by graded, cited sources listed in the History & provenance section, cross-checked against font-binary forensics where a file could be obtained.
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First documented 2005. Origin: Pakistan. Evidence grade A. Documents the community and government open-source responses to commercial Nastaliq in mid-2000s Pakistan; its withdrawal shows the difficulty of volunteer Nastaliq maintenance.
Technology: Unicode OpenType Nastaliq; two attributions circulate — the volunteer PakType project (SourceForge, since 2004-02-28, later withdrawn from its catalogue) and Mohsin Shafeeque Hijazee at the government's Center of Excellence for Urdu Informatics (2005, per Devroye and per the analysed binary).
This font is part of the Nastaliq Research Archive — the open, graded history of the Nastaliq script and its typefaces.