Writing Urdu in GNOME desktop environment for GNU/Linux

Greetings Earth creatures!
You are some truly bizarre creatures! You cannot even accomplish a simple task of enabling Urdu keyboard layout from your keyboard preferences.
So today, I'll have to walk you through the steps.

In this tutorial, I am using a default Fedora 14 install with GNOME desktop environment. What you have to do is, go to that System menu on the top, mouse over Preferences and from the sub-menu that appears, click on Keyboard.

You will see this window:

By default you see the US English keyboard layout. Now press the Add button to add another one. You will be presented with a list like this:

You can select keyboard layout by country...

or you can select by language.

Here we choose the popular layout designed by CRULP (Center for Research in Urdu Language Processing). After you have chosen the layout, click Add.
As you can see, we now have "Pakistan CRULP" in our list of keyboard layouts.

Now you can close this window and start typing Urdu in any application right away! To switch layouts, use that little applet in the notification area (commonly found on the top right).

And if you are confused about which key to use for which alphabet, right-click on the Keyboard Layout Indicator applet and select Show Current Layout. It will show you which keys are mapped to which characters.

The End!
Now go enjoy writing Urdu anywhere you like. In Firefox, gEdit, LibreOffice, or even on your forehead.