Yeah, the RIGHT to speak/use their own language. West Pakistan killed the first East Pakistanis in the 50s, and it was when the East Pakistanis demanded their own language be given official status (them asking for their right).
On which base will we remain unite if we let the education be given to students in their mother tongue. What will be the basis.
One thing is sure, that by promoting regional languages in their regions, there would be many many jobs for translators. Even if education is given in the local language, urdu has to be compulsary in order to make cross communication easy.
Actuallly, the situation is very complex. Uniting many nations and making them as one nation is very difficult .
Yeah, the RIGHT to speak/use their own language. West Pakistan killed the first East Pakistanis in the 50s, and it was when the East Pakistanis demanded their own language be given official status (them asking for their right).
We have to see a thing from all corners. The Bigger picture.
If a Punjabi Engineer is working with a Sindhi Engineer. The Punjabi Engineer wants to discuss about the construction of a building. He has studied in Punjabi Language while the Sindhi has studied in Sindhi. Tell me one thing. Both of the Engineers will have separate vocabularies for the tools they will have to use to construct that building. How will they converse with each other. Will it not be difficult for them to work with each other. Will they have to bring a translator with them. So we have to see all the corners of a thing. Please give the solution of the problems I raised if you want Provincial languages to flourish. We have to have some common platform. If education will be given in regional languages then what will be the medium of cross communication and cross co-operation. Secondly can you give me one nice example. If you give the example of India, their education is mostly in English. So even they had to have some common language in order to solve this cross platform problem. What solution you can give.
My question remains un-answered. Secondly Urdu is a lashkari zubaan. It has many words of other languages. So technically speaking, Pakistan is an urdu word. As persian words adopted by urdu don't make urdu a persian language/
Our various languages/ethnicities make our country what it is.
Urdu is beautiful and should have its own province but Punjabi, Pashto, Kashmiri are beautiful too and we need to preserve them.
We don’t need to create a FAKE common pan-ethncity to be united. Being one religion and under one state and flag is enough to be united, all Muslims should be united and a common language is not neccesary.
I dont know why someone posts or starts a thread like this but it does not help in uniting Pakistan.
But since i am also part of this thread now i think Urdu is a beautiful language and should be lingua franca of Pakistan but other languages should also be taught in school so that people from other provinces do not feel discriminated. All the languages of Pakistan or the world are an asset and are beautiful.
I think we should all start learning sign language and communicate in it. To hell with languages. Despite, too much noise because of people yelling and chatting and murmuring every time.
farsi turkish etc I can understand being in the mix. how can arabic have gotten into Pakistan? is there really any population in Pakistan that speaks arabic as mother tounge? I don't thinks so
Well, Urdu was conceived centuries back in the Mughal courts, when Arabs too maintianed their presence in the durbar. plus Arabic was/is the religious language too.
Who ever... in their rightful mind thinks that URDU is the thorn in Pakistan's prosperity... should please, read the Urdu literature first.
And then come and talk like adults.
Students in Punjab are not taught Punjabi as a language in Schools. They cannot take high school and college exams (e.g. science subjects) in Punjabi. Punjabi as a subject only comes in undergraduate level and only very desperate or dedicated ones take it as an elective. This is not true for other Provinces where one can study and take exams in local languages.
I do not know what else is required to respect the National Language?
Students in Punjab are not taught Punjabi as a language in Schools. They cannot take high school and college exams (e.g. science subjects) in Punjabi. Punjabi as a subject only comes in undergraduate level and only very desperate or dedicated ones take it as an elective. This is not true for other Provinces where one can study and take exams in local languages.
I do not know what else is required to respect the National Language?
I went to school in Pak for a few years and any student found speaking in Punjabi or Pashto was beaten.
The teachers said only Urdu or English were worthy of being spoken.
Talk about ehsas-e-kamtari.
We have such rich cultural heritages but they are being stripped from us leaving us identityless.
farsi turkish etc I can understand being in the mix. how can arabic have gotten into Pakistan? is there really any population in Pakistan that speaks arabic as mother tounge? I don't thinks so
Nobody in Pak speaks Turkish either and Farsi is spoken by a very very small minority, I have some Farsi speaking relatives through marriage but the younger generation have lost it.
Arabic shouldn't be classed as a national language but it should be given constitutional/official language status in Pakistan and used as a language of inter-provincial communication because Pakistan was created in the name of our religion and Arabic is the language of our religion.
As a Pashtun-Punjabi hybrid Pakistani Urdu is a bad choice for my national language because it has nothing to do with my ethnicity or my religion.
Urdu shouldn't be the only national language, Punjabi, Pashto etc. should also be made national languages and one constitutional language Arabic.
urdu speaking minorty of pakistan always controlled pakistan media and propagated against other laguages of pakistani people that these are languages of "ujad" people
although most urdu poets or writers were punjabi origion
LOL, Punjabi as national language.....hilarious, Nice joke.
We have one Punjabi in our Masjid who tries to speak Punjabi with Arabs & Africans.
Students in Punjab are not taught Punjabi as a language in Schools. They cannot take high school and college exams (e.g. science subjects) in Punjabi. Punjabi as a subject only comes in undergraduate level and only very desperate or dedicated ones take it as an elective. This is not true for other Provinces where one can study and take exams in local languages.
I do not know what else is required to respect the National Language?
Another fact: Sindhi can be chosen as medium of instructions in schools up to SSC level, all across Sindh. Education policy upto HSC level is PROVINCIAL matter and if SIndh can choose SIndhi, Urdu & English as medium of instructions in schools and colleges then what is stopping other three provinces? Bare in mind, Urdu speaking populous was accused of dominating Sindh's governance, yet Sindhi was given the same status as Urdu and English in the province.
