Re: Changing Pakistan's national language?
If we lose urdu, then we start experiencing the same problems as Bangladesh. Not having a workforce familiar with English is a liability in the global marketplace.
Pakistan has a much easier time getting inflows of money from abroad than Bangladesh does because are workers and government are easier to deal with.
English in schools, universities and government has been a blessing for Pakistan's economy.
And little reasoning has been given why having English as an official language leads to westernisation. Westernisation has been happening is plenty of arab countries that don't use English as an official language. And it's been happening in China, and in Japan, and in Latin America......