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Pakistan’s official Language is going to change

  • Writer: Osama Abbasi
    Osama Abbasi
  • Jun 21, 2017
  • 2 min read

The 1973 Constitution of Pakistan under Article 251 specifies that the government under all situations, must make Urdu the national language within 15 years. This law is yet to be achieved.It should be clear to all that switching from English to Urdu does not mean that the earlier would be surrendered totally would in any case be educated in schools alongside Urdu. So it is clear that Urdu would be a second medium of language and all official business will be bilingual.

While some Pakistanis fear that the change would be a drawback for their children. If we think and see as a realist, this move will allow Pakistan to become more democratic because it will provide more noteworthy investment to individuals who don't know English; consequently, making the administration more comprehensive.

There are several languages are spoken in Pakistan, English leads the pack among the first class and government services. Punjabi is spoken by nearly half of Pakistanis. Urdu is spoken by only 8% of Pakistanis. Many other languages are spoken by small ratio of the population. In the interim, India too has a comparable statement in its constitution; in any case it keeps on utilizing English and additionally Hindi as its official dialects.

We may say that all languages spoken in Pakistan are kind of national languages. Yet Urdu being the source to bring together the Muslims of the subcontinent so Urdu gains the status owing to its political history.

For the advancement of the mother language and underlined the need to advance and elevate the dialect with a mean to improve the country's information. Urdu being a national dialect was surely a fortune trove of learning including that national and mother dialects likewise assume a critical part in the advancement of writing. Culture cannot be promoted by adopting other languages and that only the mother tongue was the most powerful instrument of preserving and developing national heritage.

It is obvious that when a nation is destitute of its mother tongue, it quit to progress. For this reason the nations around the world have started to examine the important of Mother tongue.

It is impossible for any language to survive by simply outside reinforce unless its speakers quit considering it as a below average contrasted with various languages later on simply those languages would survive which would have vitality to equal distinctive tongues.

There is a struggle between regional languages and Urdu; scholars complain that the regional languages do not get the proper attention because of Urdu, which is wrong.

There is a battle between territorial languages and Urdu; researchers mostly complain that the local languages don't get the correct consideration on account of Urdu, which isn't right.

To Promote Urdu language all government or semi-government organizations are working under the federation must translate their policies, by-laws and all kinds of forms into Urdu, which will show up nearby with English forms inside the following three months. They should likewise build up their web-bas

 
 
 

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