 Urdu was the dominant native language among Christians of Karachi and Lahore in present-day Pakistan and Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh Rajasthan in India, during the early part of the 19th and 20th century, and is still used by Christians in these places.Pakistani and Indian Christians often used the Roman script for writing Urdu.Thus Roman Urdu was a common way of writing among Pakistani and Indian Christians in these areas up to the 1960s.