Many of them know Farsi too.
I will need further examples and proof of this. I have never heard of this in modern BD.
I can read and speak Urdu. I didn't study in Madrassa though. It's in our gene. We can speak it easily of we want to.
Hindi is very unpleasant to hear. )
Its time we reintroduce the ideology of Allama Iqbal and discart foreign element Rabindra guy.
You are
woke, my brother. True hierloom of Sultanate of Bengal, Dilli Sultanat, and Mughals. I salute you.
Bangalis started hate towards west Pakistan because Urdu was chosen as national language of Pakistan it was right choice as it was language of Muslims of India and they had struggled for its existence against Hindi, Founder of Pakistan clearly said Urdu will be National language which was not accepted by heart in east Pakistan.
In many ways, modern Pakistanis made the most compromises and suffered most. We imported Muslims from India and took on another province in Bengal.
These people have very little racial, civilizational, or cultural similarities with us. Pakistan was forced to placate Muslims who still idolized Hindus of India for a long time.
It was only until 1971 that Pakistan started searching inward for its soul and recovered its true racial, national identity.
As for the Indian Muslims who immigrated to Pakistan, they adopted the culture and became sons of the soul, their ties to India were eroded over time.
We even compromised on our official language which was Dari (Eastern Persian) and adopted Urdu. I love Urdu as a language, but every advantage Urdu has, Dari has it in even more abundance. This is why Allama Iqbal switched to this tongue later on in his poetry.
Furthermore, adoption of Dari is key to merging Pakistan with Afghanistan and re-unifying the Indus basin. The king of Afghanistan was given money/support by the British to stay out of the partition and they even sold out areas like former FATA to the British for cash stipends.
Otherwise, Pakistan and Afghanistan are contiguous, we still don't have a real border, it cuts towns and areas in halves, cuts families. Pukhtoons and Wakhis are divided between two nations.