Sons of Soil and Sindhi Language

[Jolie]

Re: Sons of Soil and Sindhi Language

@muqawwee123

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.

Oh so now Sindhi is in strong position in Sindh? So this whole fuss is about some obscure ‘symbolic recognition’ to soothe down the egos of relentless nationalists and console their victim complex. Well good to know Sindhi is secured in Sindh, it took four threads for you to admit that. Maybe I should’ve put PPP on a proper blast much earlier. As far as some symbolic recognition is concerned, Pakistan has far more pressing issues to deal with and one of them being annual famine killings hundreds of children in a nuclear armed country in 21st century. Yes, one of the pressing issue is also creating more provinces which is far more likely make a direct positive contribution to people’s lives than any symbolic gimmickry.

As with the intention of my thread, I thought it would be quite obvious that I’m genuinely interested to find out exactly what the dear old oh so Sindhi PPP has done for Sindhi language, since the ‘so called founding father’ was such an enemy of the language. Your response, I must admit is quite typical of PPP, the world just starts and end at 70s. May be I need to remind you exactly how powerful and influential PPP became after 1972. They just had a complete five year federal rule, I didn’t see them fighting for any language recognition. If ethnic and language cards sell really well in Sindhi then surely PPP should’ve respected Sindhis struggled and continued their campaigning for greater recognition? They must get votes over evil outsiders for something. So I just wanted to see if you would put beloved sons of soil on trial for failing Sindhis or such scrutiny and blame game is only reserved for evil outsiders who probably don’t stand the chance of getting ever elected in Sindh.

*Voter list should be in the language that can be understood by voters themselves and in Sindhi majority area, Sindhi got this right. *

And exactly why should those Sindhis not learn and understand Urdu when they claim to have no problem with this language being the national lingua franca? Classic case of not extending good education to those people, and keeping Urdu and English literacy rates systematically low.

Like I said, voters list is a state’s property, those records ultimately belong to all the public. Therefore they must be the language understood by all Pakistanis and especially the official language represented by the state.