Armstrong
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In India 1950s-1960s we too faced lot many issues on language. It was permanently solved with language based states, 14 official languages(now its 22). Critics said it would be fatal for India but they were proved wrong.
I was asking something else; I'm all for the linguistic identity of the people being nurtured but not at the expense of significant minorities of other linguistic groups living within every single Province of Pakistan ! Instead of creating One Official Language for a Province let it be Urdu & English as is the case for the rest of Pakistan & instead make one 'regional language' of choice to be made compulsory for everyone to choose from; so that the Pashto speakers in KPK can pick Pashto, the Hindkowans of KPK can pick that & so on & so forth for some of the other smaller ethno-linguistic groups be it Potohari, Gojri, Saraiki or even Baluchi ! Let this method be employed across the length & breadth of Pakistan within reasonable bounds.