Medium Of Instruction: Govt rapped for not promoting Punjabi

LAHORE: World Punjabi Congress (WPC) chairman Fakhar Zaman rapped the government on Friday for not encouraging the teaching of Punjabi at the primary level.

He was speaking at a special meeting of the WPC’s executive committee on the occasion of the International Mother Language Day. Zaman also reiterated the WPC’s demand for all languages spoken in Pakistan to be given national language status. He said the Punjab was the only place in the world where education was not imparted in the mother tongue. Zaman said the importance of mega projects would be reduced to zilch if people were alienated from their mother tongue due to the cavalier attitude of the government. He said the Lahore Declaration that had been recently issued had become the agenda of Punjabi intellectuals, writers and scholars. Zaman said the WPC would organise regular one-day conferences to air its demands.

Published in The Express Tribune, February 21^st, 2015.