Baloch, Sindhi and Pakistani minorities to move UNHCR against 'language oppression'

[GoldenAsif]

Re: Baloch, Sindhi and Pakistani minorities to move UNHCR against 'language oppressio

This is absolutely not true. I have yet to come across a (Pakistani-born) Pakistani who did not speak or understand (at least broken) urdu.

@GoldenAsif

**The ‘8% speak urdu’ refers to those people whose first language or mother tongue is urdu i.e. urdu speaking people. It is not true that only 8% of pakistanis can speak and understand urdu.
48% speak punjabi implies those whose mother tongue is Punjabi but what it does not say is that 100% of those punjabis speak and understand urdu
10% speak saraiki means 10% of the population is saraiki but 100% of those saraikis speak and understand urdu.
The same is true with the other percentages mentioned.

I am all for enrichment and promotion of local language but urdu is the only language that is spoken and understood all over Pakistan, hence it should stay as our national language
Official work should be in both English & Urdu**

Our pathan brothers and sisters may occasionally get masculine (muzakkar) and feminine (muannas) nouns wrong but they do speak and understand urdu (even if not as perfect as others)

Already discussed at length in this thread
http://www.paklinks.com/gs/general/661318-urdu-national-langauge.html