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Urdu:An ‘Early Mistake’ of Pakistan 2021-08-02

Posted August 2nd, 2021 by librarian-hd
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File photo. Rizwan Tabassum—AFP
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newsweekpakistan.com/ Newsweek

Imposing Urdu as a national language on then-East Pakistan actually damaged ‘national unity,’ rather than bolstering it
Dr. Naazir Mahmood, in his book of collected essays Politics Pictures Personalities (2005), highlights some “mistakes” of Pakistan soon after Partition in 1947, suggesting these foreshadowed the “big” mistakes it was to make later.


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