Thursday, 19 September 2013
Education emergency! What about your language Mr Governor?
With the emergence of Pakistan as an independent state in 1947 the tool of the Urdu language, which was used to highlight separatist Muslim identity, suddenly lost its previous effectiveness in the face of a diverse linguistic landscape presented by the provinces or areas that formed the territories of this new state. East Bengal, Punjab, Sindh, Baluchistan and NWFP, (now Khyber Pakhtunkhwa) had (and still have) their own distinct languages and cultures which Urdu speaking and ‘Urduised’
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