Re: Changing Pakistan's national language?
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but more importantly it does not belong to any ethnic group and was always the official language (also of the educated) in the pre-British era.
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Persian/Dari/Farsi may have been an official language for lots of different ethnic groups but that doesn't mean it doesn't belong to any particular ethnic group, it does it belongs to Persian/Farsiwan people.
The rest like Punjabis and Pashtuns have never gave their mother tongues the status they deserve, the Afghan (Pashtun) rulers used this Persian/Dari as official language and so did the one Sikh Punjabi ruler, it's not that beautifull a language I don't see why.
And what's more related to Punjabi and Sindhi??? Urdu or Persian/Pashto/ Baluchi et al.??? Urdu ofcourse, a Punjabi person even if he can't speak Urdu can still understand or get a jist of what the Urdu person is saying but he can't with Persian or Pashto, infact a Punjabi can usually understand Hndustani better than pure Urdu becuase pure Urdu has a lot of Persian words.
I don't know what you're problem is with Urdu, if we had pure Urdu in Pakistan we can easily make a statement that look we're seprate from India, some level of Indian influence will always be there in Pakistan because we're neighbours even if the national/constituional languages are unintelegible, just as there is "Paki"influence such as Shalwar Kameez, Gharaaras, Sherwanis, Pathani suits, Bollywood Hindustani leaning towards Urdu etc.
Having Persian as our language wont stop Indian influence because look at Afghanistanis their languages are totally unintlleigble to Hindi yet still they love Hindi films more than we do, especially the fobby ones, on one hand they're crazy over Indian actors and actresses and the other they call them daalkhor. Indoneians and Chinese are another people who love Indian films.
People are going to appreciate quality enetertainment regardless of country, all though amongst Muslims ive seen a noticable decline in bollywood craze because although premartial relationships of any kind are not accepted in Islamic culture, Muslims still managed to digest the usual love piyar sruff but now it's moved onto lust and stuff so a lot of Muslim families I know now are switcihng to Paki tv channels.