HHAHAHAA closet MQM supporter ROFLMAO. I dont blame Punjab EVERYONE ELSE is doing it.
Have you heard the BLA ever talking about Urdu being a threat? Most of their time they point fingers at the PUNJABI ESTABLISHMENT and they accuse them of stealing other peoples resources for the benefit of their own. Its not just Baloch nationalist but pashtun and sindhi who point these same fingers at Punjab with good reason.
I hope you get to travel around Balochistan and get to experience why these people hate pakistan. Urdu is not one of them. You are claiming its Urdu thats dividing the nation and creating resentment - Im telling you the real reasons. the urdu speaking community have just become an easy target since may 12 2007. You are making Urdu and MQM the scapegoats of pakistans 60 year problems.
The average joe does nt have time to rack up 17,000 posts and spend hours on GS too. FYI the average joe in Pakistan finds Urdu very useful. Both Punjabis and Pashtuns are the most willing to spread out all over pakistan - it is these 2 communities who have benefitted from having urdu imposed the most. The average joe in Pakistan travels more. Have you ever counted how many Buses go daily from Peshawar to Rawalpindi - there maybe 1 every 10 minutes. Then theres other methods of transport from Peshawar ie Daewoo buses, trains, them hiace vans - and im so many leave from other NWFP cities too.
If there was no Urdu Im pretrty much sure pashtn nationalists would have hated the fact that there people would have been forced to learn punjabi.
Did you know Baloch nationalists cannot communicate in Balochi because they either speak Balochi, Brahui, Seraiki or Sindhi. The Baloch are not a united ethnic group linguistically.
My Urdu is weak but everyone in pakistan I have come across can speak urdu except a few from Punjab who spoke their own. Speak to a Pashtun, Sindhi, Balochi in urdu and they will talk back to you in Urdu - no problemo at all.
The interesting thing that youmention is that own assemblies work in their own languages.
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So what exactly is the provincial language for balochistan? The 3 most widely spoken language are balochi, brahui and pashtu. Unless you cut Balochistan up into fuirther provinces then you would create huge problems.
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in NWFP pashtu is spoken more than the others. Most Chitralis and people from Hazara division cannt speak pashtu - From your system does that mean if there was a chitrali , Hindko speaker and Pashtun that when the pashtun talks he willspeak pashtu and other chitrali speak chitrali and the other speak Hindko. Would they be able to talk together in whatever language they want even if they dont understand each other? I know is a silly scenario but I detect that you think its perfectly reasonable to impose pashtu on a chitrali and hindko speaker?
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Sindh is not all Sindhi speaking as well. There are a lot of urdu speakers there. I know some may argue historically its been Sindhi speaking but we have to look at today’s situation. If Urdu speakers cant have their views heard in sindh and be accepted as par tof the demographics in Sindh then i say deport all those who claim any non-native to the lands people. Most of pakistans urban areas have developed over last 50 years - by that definition the populations are also not local and should have no say how the city is run.
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in Punjab most people speak seraiki - how would lahories and pindiwalas feel when seraiki is spoken in their asemblies?
Sometimes somethings have to be imposed. Should womens right be taken away in Pakistan because the majority of the country do not adhere to them?
The problem with your argument is that you dont want to impose Urdu yet you support the imposition of even lesser and just-as-alien smaller languages. Your argument is not a solution but a catalyst for furhter problems.
Is ok to spend time reading fancy arguments on the net by psuedo-intellectuals but not alll of their ideas work in practise. Where mother tongues must be supported is at schools where people learn to read and write them. Teachers must start basic education in mother tongues so that chldren learn effectively and quickly. Any other languages can be learnt later on.
I simply find it bad manners, morally wrong, unacceptable that people would want to sit in assemblies wanting to discuss extremely important issues such ad budgets, health policy, education, social progress in multi-lingual settings and then want to speakin their own languages knowing full well they are not understood. if people want to chit chat amongst friends about what they did the other night then fair enough do it in whichever language suits you. When it comes to an important subject where people are being affected negatively or positively and its multi-lingual group setting then people should speak the language which everyone can speak. In the case of people sitting in assemblies most can speak Urdu fairly well and Im sure the others have more than enough knowledge of it.
For example, Discussions about health care improvements in the Balochistan assembly in the Balochi language would automatically exclude and discriminate against Barhuis and Pashtuns.