Pakistan News And Discussion-14

[Naresh]

<b>ramana Ji :</b>

From your post Today - 05-12-2007, 02:27 AM

<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->"Mimicking Benazir Bhutto's Urdu is a good way to revive the party when the conversation runs dry," Washington-based Yawar Herekar wrote in a letter to a local newspaper.
   
"It has been over 60 years since the end of the British Raj but they left the English language behind as a curse and blessing for us. English might be the language of business, <b>but Urdu is the language that holds our history and serves as our identity.

"As Pakistanis, we need to be proud of our mother tongue</b> and get rid of our colonialist mindset before it destroys our culture from the insides," he added on a more serious note<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->

Urdu is not the Mother Tongue of the Pakistanis - it is the National Language.

Neither the <b>Pakistan Statistical Year Book 2007</b> nor the <b>Population Census Organization</b> give any Statistics of the Languages spoken in the Country.

However, the following is from the World Fact book :

<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>Pakistani Languages :</b> Punjabi 48%, Sindhi 12%, Siraiki (a Punjabi variant) 10%, Pashtu 8%, <b><span style='font-size:14pt;line-height:100%'>Urdu (official) 8%,</span></b> Balochi 3%, Hindko 2%, Brahui 1%, English (official; lingua franca of Pakistani elite and most government ministries), Burushaski and other 8%.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->

Thus it is quite natural that the Urdu spoken by Pakistanis - other than the Mohajirs from UP and Bihar - is atrocious!

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