Im not one of those sad people whose life revolves around maligning India but yeah since India was dragged into the discussion with you claiming India does not have problems I just gave you a little reality check.
Pakistan does not have the sort of poverty that India has.
Your fooled and blinded by positive media reports. there is A HUGE difference between India and Pakistan - India gets a lot of good publicity. It is a country which has more or less rejected its culture and has accepted westernisation - one of the biggest issues in pakistan is that there are people who do not wantto see the country westernised and they are atively involved in resiting westernisation. Although the masses in pakistan have more or less accepted the slow westernisation process.
The biggest problem with people like you is that your life revolves around what other people judge you as - if most people judge pakistan as a failed state why not go out there and do something to stop the rot. If you dont get out there and do something yourself for your country no one else will.
By the way according to john maccain pakistan is no longer a failed state but was in 1999 i hope that makes you feel a lot better.
East Pakistan deserved its own language agreed - both urdu and bengali should have been equally important in this land where most speak bangaldesh.
BUT still bangladesh was ina DIFFERENT position to the provicnces in pakistan today - the provinces and ethnic groups within pakistan NEED NEED NEED Urdu to communicate across cultures.
If there is no urdu it will be punjabi or english which would take over.
The thinng is a language woul dhave to be imposed anyway. Educated south indians who have not learn Hindi HAVE to speak ENGLISH with their northern indian brethren. They still have to revert to an even more foreign language to communucate across the country? thats quite shameful to be honest although i can understand why south indias probably feel that hindi is nt a language they should have tolearn BUT THEY STILL HAVE TO LEARN ENGLISH.
You talk about provinces - why should provincial languages be imposed?
You obviously read a lot of provincilaists - their argument does not necessarily have to be correct or the right way forward. Most provincialists give two hoots about the minority languages that exist along their own language within their provinces.
IF Pakistan imposed provincial languages on people it would cause for more of a negative reaction than Urdu.
People would go ape.
Are you saying in Punjab people would be forced to learn Seraiki, potohari, punjabi?
In NWFP pashtu and pakhtu both dialects, kho, hindko, seraiki
In Balochistan - brohi, baluchi, pashtu ?
In Sindh -Sindhi, urdu, kacchi, gujarati?
Are you actually saying that al these languges willbe imposed upon people??
thejoke, you think theres rampant poverty in India, and you think its not there in Pakistan?
I will ignore the 'desperate' attempt to malign India, because the world knows where India stands today, and where Pakistan stands, the latter being termed as a failed state by almost everyone these days.
As for your request for solution! I already said so, rewind 60 years, make Urdu and English the official languages, whereas every state would have its own official language, especially East Pakistan. Unfortunately, due to some selfish motives, we failed to do that, and imposed a foriegn language to every one of them. Its too late too do what I suggest, but giving the provinces more provincial autonomy would be a wise thing to do now, as the necessary damage control.