And a SxS comparison of how much difference Nastaliq makes to readability !! (Article from Jang)

The Urdu on the internet, however, is... not. It's written generally in Naskh, that looks like this (cc: @bbcurdu.bsky.social).
This isn't because fonts aren't available. We have had urdu fonts since the 80s with Noori Nastaliq. The contemporary font space includes fonts like Mehr, Noto and Gulzar

I can read Urdu that is on the internet, but the experience is jarring. The Urdu I encounter every day in newspapers, on signs, is written beautifully in Nastaliq:

Did you know ى is more likely to occur at the end of a word than at the start. There are more words which start with م than there are words that end with it.
Used Python+MATLAB+MSPaint to visualize how the letters in the #Urdu language are distributed within words.