The Karachi Airport Ayatollah

Singapore has 4 national languages.

Why can`t Pakistan have English as the official language:

And 5 national languages - Punjabi, Pashto, Sindhi, Baluchi and Urdu.

We can not lose Urdu - our creation. Let everyone be happy - including Urdue speaking.

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If I understood your article correctly.

Obviously the writer hasn`t visited Lahore`s New International Airport... Karachi`s airport is only the second best airport in Pakistan...

I second Nazar Hayat`s suggestion of English as the national language.

HM,

Brilliant! First, Beards and Bombs and now this, for once I could come to Chowk and laugh my head off.

Nazar Sahib,

What do they say, khuda key vaaste… aapke to panch province hain, but what about us with 25 no 27 no 30 … well you get the idea. What does a national language mean anyways. Would the constitution need to be translated to all the national languages? With 1000+ pages, that should keep the courts, politicians, leftists, rightists and everyone else busy for years to come. Unfortunately, the conflicts will only multiply. Languages are a regional affair and should be left that way.

The governments are fast losing control over the choice of the means of communications among people and parties. The whole issue of national langauge besides official business is thing of the past. Bottom line is: what works. Opposing Englsh in modern world is useless idea and it wont work.

you are wery funny haroon sahib. i am your number one fanclub!

funny article...

its Havai aDa not hava ada...

and international has been indusized, its pronounced eenTerneyshnul...

A really good article! You`ve raised a very important issue. However English is the world`s second language. The fact that English is spoken and understood by so many Pakistanis can be used as a positive thing. Nevertheless Urdu is OUR language and the English language can`t compare!

Nice essay...

However, I couldn`t help noticing the other day on the train these two guys who were speaking Urdu to each other. They sounded so effeminate and the G word came to mind..however, when they occasionally slipped into Punjabi - their testerone levels went magically up.. :)

Where does the word Hawai come from? Is the root for this word Sanskrit `Vayu` or is there some Persian or Arabic root for it. Incidently, when in Punjabi they some something is `vayi baadi` it means it creates gas or `vayu` in the body.

utter nonsense!

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For every one young person who says he or she is interested in learning urdu, one hundred say they would rather learn english. why be impervious to their desires? screw urdu! Urdu as the national language is the wet dream of old-fashioned `one religion one language` ideologues of Pakistan.

``Hava anda`` means ``have an egg parantha`` in Kotla Mubarakpur/Sewa Nagar after driving back from Gym towards DefCol late night by the inside route next to the Safdarjung/INA Colony railway tracks. Everything comes back to food.

``Hava Nagila`` means code word for ``airport`` by Israelis overflying, in Pakistanese, I am told.

``Viman Tal`` means ``airport`` in ``shudh Urdu``, as announced by the ``hawai-Sundari`` on the Aath - Paanch - Shunya night Airbus-320 flight from Poona to Delhi.

!!uoy knaht llew gniod si aidnI ni udrU

Kick Urdu out of Pakistan. Once you do that, Indians will no doubt reclaim it as their own.

RE Veeresh ``Hava anda`` means ``have an egg parantha`` in Kotla Mubarakpur/Sewa Nagar ``
And very yummy they are too - even though the oil always struck me to be of dubious origin.

veeru


!yah ik tab ayk haw ahcahc ureev

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