Same here, brother!
I do however agree with him about
Urdu language as official language... this will make it accessable to all Paks... and also standardised educational system... he is correct. Also about water conservation and under ground rivers... he was right on the mark.
@Shane @Reddington @PakSword
Siddiqe Jaan needs to be careful... he is exposing
FazoolMullahMaffia too much!
There are merits and demerits of Urdu as official language, at one end any educational medium not in your native language tends to limit creativity, but the other side which many of the scientists agree, children should be exposed to a multilingual environment as early as possible, children having learned more than one language in the early ages develop more creative skills I think
@graphican has much more data on this.
Urdu as a language might have evolved over the decades but the course work seems to be going in the opposite direction who in their right mind would elaborate poetry of Ghalib, Mir, Akbar ilah abadi, nazeer akbar abadi, mirza anees, dabeer and bahdur shah zafar most of those wordings are now obscure, outdated and by forcing our children to study them by teachers who too have zero command over such words is just an excuse of turning them away from this language.
Although I was trained to be adept at many languages including sanskrit by my family, even for me the read family archives of the 19th century urdu is a big challenge, for many of the words I have to revert to dictionaries.
Leaving aside maths which is universal if we compare the course work of our matric system with that of GCE, one clearly understand one is designed to test memory mean block creative thinking questioning and reasoning, the other one checks understanding.
So there are merits and demerits, if we do it as an evolutionary step it will be productive on three to four decades basis, but usually we do it on revolutionary basis means one good day the decision is implemented with immediate effect and then take it back in which case things will continue to be like today.