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Call to protect Seraiki language
From Our Correspondent
MULTAN: Seraiki nationalists, intellectuals, writers and researchers have demanded the government promote and protect the Seraiki language being spoken by more than 70 million people in the country.
Speaking at a seminar organised by the Pakistan Seraiki Party in connection with the International Mother Tongue Day held here on Saturday, PSP president Dr Nukhba Taj Langah said over the years, Seraikis had developed their own separate national character and historical ethnic narrative. The Seraiki was final and complete language in historical perspective and it matured in result of process of centuries instead it was dialect. Dr Nukhba Taj Langah lamented the Seraiki language was not adopted at primary level but classes were started in Masters, graduation and intermediate levels. She demanded the government induct Seraiki language in curriculum at primary and intermediate levels. PSP stalwart Syed Hassan said the respective governments had established institutions for the promotion of languages except Seraiki. The Seraiki Adbi Board was established in result of personal efforts made by writers but the government did not bother to establish any institution to ensure Seraiki publications, he added. He demanded the government establish an institution for uplift of Seraiki language. PPP South Punjab acting general secretary Dr Javed Siddiqui said the PPP had made sincere efforts in her rule to establish a separate province but the PML-N was not sincere. He said solution to the problems faced by Seraikis lies in the creation of separate province. Multan High Court Bar Association president Syed Athar Shah Bukhari supported the demand for adopting Seraiki language at primary level. He said lawyers had launched a struggle for creation of Seraiki province and they would continue their struggle. Former MNA Nafis Ansari, PSP secretary general Muhammad Akbar Ansari, Noorul Haq, Abida Hussain, Shaista Bukhari, Basit Bhatti, Prof Shaukat Mughal, Ahmed Nawaz Soomro, Mumtaz Khan and others also spoke.

Call to protect Seraiki language
From Our Correspondent
MULTAN: Seraiki nationalists, intellectuals, writers and researchers have demanded the government promote and protect the Seraiki language being spoken by more than 70 million people in the country.
Speaking at a seminar organised by the Pakistan Seraiki Party in connection with the International Mother Tongue Day held here on Saturday, PSP president Dr Nukhba Taj Langah said over the years, Seraikis had developed their own separate national character and historical ethnic narrative. The Seraiki was final and complete language in historical perspective and it matured in result of process of centuries instead it was dialect. Dr Nukhba Taj Langah lamented the Seraiki language was not adopted at primary level but classes were started in Masters, graduation and intermediate levels. She demanded the government induct Seraiki language in curriculum at primary and intermediate levels. PSP stalwart Syed Hassan said the respective governments had established institutions for the promotion of languages except Seraiki. The Seraiki Adbi Board was established in result of personal efforts made by writers but the government did not bother to establish any institution to ensure Seraiki publications, he added. He demanded the government establish an institution for uplift of Seraiki language. PPP South Punjab acting general secretary Dr Javed Siddiqui said the PPP had made sincere efforts in her rule to establish a separate province but the PML-N was not sincere. He said solution to the problems faced by Seraikis lies in the creation of separate province. Multan High Court Bar Association president Syed Athar Shah Bukhari supported the demand for adopting Seraiki language at primary level. He said lawyers had launched a struggle for creation of Seraiki province and they would continue their struggle. Former MNA Nafis Ansari, PSP secretary general Muhammad Akbar Ansari, Noorul Haq, Abida Hussain, Shaista Bukhari, Basit Bhatti, Prof Shaukat Mughal, Ahmed Nawaz Soomro, Mumtaz Khan and others also spoke.