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Language Debate

  • The language lab

    The language lab

    With Urdu and English vying for supremacy and authority, most of the leading intellectuals find themselves at the linguistic crossroads

  • The Urdu vs English controversy yet again

    The Urdu vs English controversy yet again

    The world has become a multi-lingual environment and therefore we should stop yearning for a controlled monolingual dream of the past and look...

  • Urdu: it's official

    Urdu: it's official

    The Supreme Court order, even if implemented, will not really change the power equation nor will it remove the linguistic privilege of the haves...

  • Manufactured identity

    Manufactured identity

    While the state failed to adopt Urdu as the official language, it failed equally in adopting provincial languages for teaching and other official...

  • English will stay as the language of power

    English will stay as the language of power

    Academic and intellectual Tariq Rahman talks about the underlying factors keeping the lingual conflict alive in Pakistan

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