Sons of Soil and Sindhi Language

muqawwee123 · January 12, 2015, 5:21pm

Re: Sons of Soil and Sindhi Language

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Why should voters’ list be in Sindhi or any other language for that matter? That list is state and government’s property so they should be in common language. Anything having to do with electoral process is a national issue. If you have such significant classifications in Sindhi, then that means only Sindhis are able to utilise those them. No ‘outsider’ can go and work in Sindhi bureaucracy because of language barriers.

To make languages official or not is ultimately government’s responsibility, PPP had been ruling Sindh for decades and had enjoyed power at the centre. It was once the single most influential party at its peak, and was called the party of federation. Now if you don’t want place any sense of accountability on PPP for failing the Sindhi struggle for their mother tongue and don’t want to ask why your fellow Sindhis couldn’t do anything to promote your language, then exactly who are you blaming here? Punjabis?

I’m blaming those who took steps like I pointed above. Voter list should be in the language that can be understood by voters themselves and in Sindhi majority area, Sindhi got this right. They fought for it. Even Sindhi girl students like Akhtar Baloch were jailed for demanding this and finally that was accepted.

I fail to understand purpose of this thread. Is it for bashing PPP or telling Sindhis that their sticking to follow their language is a foolishness? Please come up with open intention, so that you can get an answer accordingly.

PPP did make Sindhi, Sindh’s official language alongwith Urdu by passing a resolution in 1972 in Sindh assembly, which was followed by linguistic riots.

PS: you probably missed those posts in this thread, which contained a detailed history and current status of Sindhi in Sindh coupled with comments by Sindhi intellectuals. After all the movements, Sindhi is in strong position in Sindh and just acknowledging it as national language alongwith other langauges of Pakistan will be symbolic recognition.