Importance Of National Language Vis-A-Vis National Unity

Although all provincial languages are equally important, yet the need and importance of a national language cannot be denied. Every nation needs some marks of identity. Language is the prime mark of identification for any nation. Pakistan is a strong federation of four provinces and its national language is Urdu, which enjoys the protection of the constitution.

The father of the nation, Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah had also declared Urdu as the national language of Pakistan. Urdu serves, as the means of coordination between different provinces of Pakistan nee to converse with each other, they need a link language.

The national language creates a feeling of unity and national cohesion. People living in different provinces realize that in spite of speaking different languages, they are joined together by one national language, which is the heritage of all.

This is way the Urdu poetry and prose is getting its contributors from every province of Pakistan. We find poets and writers from Sindh, Punjab, Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, whose works in Urdu are a valuable contribution to Urdu literature It is evident from the above facts that Urdu truly deserves to be recognized as our national language.

 

 

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