If anyone ever listened to what nationalists and provincialists considerto be the MAIN problems in pakistan and they will say
1. nwfp produces electricty of which very little is used by nwfp and most by punjab
2. balochistan produces gas of which it sees little yet it can be pumped 1800km across to Sialkot
3. sindh claims karachi is earning the most most money for pakistan yet very little spent on it and that water is being diverted from sindh by canals and waterways built in punjab for the benefit of punjab. over the last 100 years sindh is seeing increasing desertification and punjab was thorn forest yet now its green.
We can change the languages yet we still have the problem of resource distribution.
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Originally Posted by Spock
Yes, it has weakened the unity Wondergirl, that happens when you have a language that hardly 8% of the population can relate to, culturally and with identity. We made it the national language ages ago, we made this mistake, the students who died, the province that parted ways, the disharmony we have, that wasnt because of a bunch of words, letters and a way of saying things, it was becuase of our attitude. We can live with those mistakes, but the key is to learn from them. We need to preserve our culture and identity and give recognition to these 'other' languages that are looked down on. You mentioned that these languages are still spoken and arent under threat. I disagree, and present myself as an example. My parents and other elders speak fluent Punjabi and converse with each other in Punjabi. However, I dont, and grew up speaking Urdu and English. Uptil I was 15, I used to look down on Punjabi, because of the education I received and used to think of it as an inferior language, and I see that attitude prevalent in some of my friends here in this very thread.
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