Re: Making Arabic our National Language
Pure Urdu and Pure Hindi are as different from each other as day and night, this mixed hogwash language that most people speak is called Hindustani.
Indian media is largely responsible for corrupting the Urdu of Pakistanis, had their been no Bollywood Urdu would be spoken in it’s pure form which has as much in common with Persian as it does with Hindi, I must admit though it is confusing because we don’t know where to draw the line as to where it seizes to be Urdu and becomes Hindi or where it becomes Persian, there’s just so many ways of saying a sentence, we should construct a standard Urdu first.
A bit of Indian/Desi culture is okay but too much of it gives me heartburn, it’s soooo gay, pendulum headed and flamboyant…
I don’t want Pakistan to become another India like these ‘artists’ are trying to make it, touring each others countries and doing joint productions.. It scares me when they talk of making Lahore a twin sity of Delhi and Karachi a twin city of Mumbai…
If Pakistan is to survive in the long run it needs to construct a culture very distinct from India… In the absence of religious zeal there is nothing at the moment which justifies Pakistan’s existence.. If a pan-Paki culture is created and Pashtuns and Baluchis assimilated more into mainstream society it will help us as a country to shift away from the east a bit towwards the west, in a way this is happening, you your self said inter-ethnic marriages are getting more and more common by the day…
I mean sometimes I think it would be better if Pakistan is divided between India and Afghanistan and be done with it, at least that will stop any further Indianisation of your people so they can be identified with their own culture and heritage and so can the Punjabis/Sindhis who are already well into their Indian culture and seem to be having a hard time parting with it..