Urdu should be adopted as the medium of instruction and compulsory subject

UNTIL a quarter of a century ago the debate whether Urdu should be adopted as the medium of instruction or not would come up in conversations. Now rarely does one hear such arguments that used to take place at conferences, in newspapers and magazines and staffrooms of schools and colleges.

When in the 1960s, Dr Ishrat Hussain Usmani, the then president of the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission, deliberated on the issue in his presidential address during the fifth annual conference of the

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