Re: Happy Nau Roz -
The ethnic kashmiri's of pakistan have also been neglected a lot, kashmiri is hardly spoken by any ethnic kashmiri in pakistan anymore, also kashmiris are not an amalgm of aryan/dravidians, they're a semitic race with mostly jewish ancestry (well thats what my dna ethnicity test showed anyway) and my parent claim that they are from pure kashmiri families. The punjabi government of pakistan really needs to get some sense slapped into it, they're over forcing stupid indian culture and languages that are not native to the land, let the lands native culture thrive so we can have our own identity. Also in my opinion urdu should be scrapped as a national lingo but still be retained for litrature and historical purposes, and instead be replaced by a national lingo which encompasses a mixture of pashtu,sindhi,baloch,kashmiri and arabic, this should satisfy the various ethnic groups and will also make pakistan unique and different to india.
But at the end of the day il be happy with anything that distances pakistan away from india as much as possible.
Also one thing I'd like to get an answer to is, why is pakistan considered as south east asia, the majority of our borders are not with south east asia, but with central asia (china + afghanistan) and middle east (iran), yet the indian border dominates everything, why?
Kashmiri is a beautful language as are other Dardic languages and it needs to be preserved, I remember Kashmiri News on PTV during summer vacations and it's beautiful, so musical although I couldn't understand much of it...
It is not only in Pakistan but also in India where they have Urdu as the national state language of Indian occupied Kashmir, they cunningly chose Urdu, as Hindi would be obvious cultural imperialism, though both are dialects of the same language but due to ignorance Urdu is associated with Islam even though it has nothing to do with Islam, the official/liturgical/inter-communication language of our religion Islam and the International Muslim Community is Arabic (so beautiful to be greeted by my Philipino bros/sis at work with Salaam-Alaykum)..
Urdu remains a Sanskritic or Indic language despite a few foreign (Arabic, Persian) terms and phrases chucked in there.
You are right about Kashmiris and Kashmiri culture having nothing to do with South-Asia, I see it as Central-Asian as well, I'm not Kashmiri but I can't wait till the day Pakistan becomes a true confederation and all of Kashmir is freed and it's culture and identity preserved in the Pakistani state of Kashmir or you get an independent country Kashmir free of Indian occupation.
Urdu should have it's own province Urduistan (Karachi) and it should be limited to that, the rest of Pakistan should have their own languages as national languages, for inter-state communication we can use English, Arabic or an artificially constructed amalgam of our national languages (Urdu, Pukhtu, Kashmiri, Panjabi, Sindhi, Balochi)..
The only thing I disagree with you is where your post implies Urdu or Punjabi culture is something negative, every culture is beautiful and I love Punjabi and Urdu culture, but it's wrong to destroy other cultures and impose ones own on them.