Re: All you guppies living abroad!!
Afia… during the early classes say… upto grades 4/5, we had a tutor who taught both Urdu as well as Quranic recitation - a 2-in-1 sort of thing… and after that essentially parents made sure that Urdu was available at every school they put us in… I remember in a couple of schools, all the Paki parents got together and requested the school admin to offer Urdu as a course and actually helped recruit a teacher as well 
- then during GCSEs’ & A-Levels, folks made sure we had Urdu as a formal course component as well.