Urdu Language Destroying Pakistan!

[Spock]

@thejoke

I think what Spock wants is that president Zardari addresses the Punjabi audience in Sindhi.
I thin what Spock wants is that Nawaz Sharif addresses his pashtun audience in English.

To understand Spocks point of view just take a trip to the Pak Affairs section and he has a severe disdain for the MQM and I think its affecting his opinion of Urdu.

Urdu is no longer just spoken by those we term Muhajir from India. There is a signifcant amount of city punjabis who only use urdu at home and their kids have no knowledge of Punjabi. There are quite a few Pashtun and Sindhi households who have adopted Urdu as the language they use at home.

It is Urdu that is the BRIDGE between diffeerent cultures and languages. Spock please do travel by bus more from Punjab to SDindh then to Mekran - whilst travelling only speak to those next to you in Punjabi. Do not use any other language. Im guessing you cant have many friends from different cultures or do you adress them in YOUR language.

Spock the biggest problems Pakistan faces to day is all provincial and most of that because Punjab gets the lion shares. Very few Baloch areas get gas. The electricity generated from Terbela is used more by Punjab. Karachi makes so much money yet see little of it spent back on it. You have come across all these arguments before.

I am not from an urdu speaking background yet that has made me appreciate more that I learnt urdu and it has enabled me to communicate BETTER THAN EVER BEFORE with so many more Pakistanis. had they known english i would not have bothered. However, itwas for more benficial for me to learn urdu. My urdu is far from perfect but i could communicate effiectively in Turbat, Gwadar, Quetta, Karachi, Thatta, Bahawalpur, Multan, Lahore, D G Khan, Mianwali, Peshawar, Muzafarabad, Muree, Abottabad, Gilgit, Hunza, Chitral…

Less than 15% may speak it at home but more than 95% can communicate in it.

With the same logic, maybe you are blaming Punjab for everything is because you are a closet MQM supporter. Sorry but MQM has nothing to do with Urdu. So lets leave the MQM at that. Also, I hope you know that my native language is Urdu, but I dont stick to the ‘oh just because its my native language i have to support it’ like a yes man. As for your claims about Punjab getting the lion’s share, you are forgetting that its Punjab who feeds the country too. Sorry but that has nothing to do with the imposition of urdu as national language. Lets leave all that out of this thread and not go off topic.

Zardari can address Pakistan in Urdu, no problems with that, however having provincial languages as official language means that the Punjab, Sindh, Baluchistan, NWFP assemblies work in their own languages and carry out their agenda in their own languages, and the Federal Govt can work in Urdu and English (their choice, Mushy liked English, some like Urdu). I hope you get it now, because even a 2nd grader would be able to understand this.

Also, your claim of 95% of Paksitanis speaking Urdu is absurd, though I see some improvement, last time you were saying 100% Furthermore, an average joe does not go galloping around Pakistan so that should be the least of the concern. If provincial languages are made official languages, Mr. Galloping Tourist can still use Urdu to communicate with these people, as like I said before Urdu should stay as one of these languages. The average joe mostly stays in his own province, wants to speak his own language, wants his countrymen to respect his desire to follow his own culture and traditions.