Urdu as our national langauge

[Ajju]

Re: Urdu as our national langauge

@TLK

• 48% speak Punjabi, mainly in eastern Punjab province
• 12% speak Sindhi, mainly in south eastern Sindh province
• 10% speak Saraiki, a variant of Punjabi
• 8% speak Pashto, in west and north western Pakistan
• 8% speak Urdu
• 3% speak Balochi, mainly in Balochistan
• English is the most popular among government ministries

8% rules the rest. Even then, urdu speaking crowd (AKA Muhajir) complained that they were sidelined.

I see Urdu as national language of Pakistan, being an unfair policy.

Urdu is the declared national language because the Punjabi elite prefer Urdu over Punjabi. What language the migrants from India spoke had nothing to do with Urdu being picked and then maintained as the national language. If the Punjabi elite would have been proud of Punjabi, it would have been the national language. I doubt the 8% number now though. Urdu is understood and spoken by a much larger percentage of people whose mother tongue is different. The combined population of Karachi, Hyderabad, Lahore, Islamabad and other Urban centers of Punjab and KPK is way more than 8% of total population of Pakistan and Urdu is spoken and understood by most of the people in these cities.