Kahut demands Punjabi Language Rights
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Punjab not implementing federal education policy
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Nazeer Kahut speaking at a conference organized by National Youth Forum Lahore at PILAC auditorium to mark international mother language day .(Photo by :Khalid Nazeer)
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Lahore,Feb20:The Punjab government is not implementing the federal education policy which warrants adoption of regional languages as national languages.
Chaudhry Nazeer Kahut founder Chairman of Punjabi National conference said this in his keynote address at a function organized in connection with International Mother Language day by the National Youth Forum at Punjab Institute of Language,Arts and Culture here on Sunday.
He regretted that Chief Minister Shahbaz Sahrif had adopted discriminatory attitude towards the Punjabi language while English was being made compulsory at the primary level in the province.
He said a movement be launched to protect the rights of the Punjab and Punjabi language to save it from what he called the conspiracies of the Punjabi establishment, feudal lords, generals and politicians.
Nazeer Kahut said that the Sindhi members of parliament were preparing to introduce a resolution in the sindh assembly and later in National Assembly and the Senate for the adoption of Seraiki,Punjabi,sindhi,Pushto and Balochi as national languages.He urged the Punjabi parliamentarians of PPP,PML-N.PML-Q and other main stream parties to join hands to support the move only but on with the condition that there are only four mother languages Sindhi,Punjabi,Pushto and Balochi in Pakistan and none other.As far as ,he said the so called Seraiki is concerned, It is a ghost created by anti-Punjab and anti Punjabi racist group in 1960.Seraiki is not a separate language from Punjabi it is just one of the many its dialects of Punjabi language.Every one in Punjab speaks one language and that is Punjabi.Seraiki movement is meant to disintegrate Pakistan,eliminate motherland Punjab,save feudalism and Support the creation of Karachi Province and divide Sindh.And moreover it was an internal matter of Punjab.
Nazeer Kahut sought the support of the Sindh province to thwart the nefarious designs of the forces wanted to divide Punjab on the basis of Language and ethnicity,
He said Punjabi be made medium of instruction in all the schools of the province and demanded that registration of private Schools failing to introduce the Punjabi language be cancelled and more newspapers ,magazines and books be written in the mother language.
Kahut said Punjabi software,search engine be introduced and a Punjabi university and a Punjabi language authority be established.
Source: Report and Photos by Khalid Nazeer, Lahore
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