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YOu are saying the same thing why Urdu was made your national language. Did you see the demand of Bengali? It did not say to exclude Urdu but to include Bengali as another national language as Urdu is vastly intelligible to East Pakistanis. Even though Urdu is not the mother language of the West Pakistanis but it was the sister language to their mother language.
No it wasn't ever heard of Pashto and Urdu being spoken side by side ? The only language that comes close to Urdu is probably Punjabi and not even that when you move a) to the rural areas where proper Punjabi is spoken or b) to Southern Punjab where Sereiki is spoken which is a transnational language between Sindhi and Punjabi ! Both Balochi & Barahui are pretty much lost on me ! So no...barring the fact that our languages are written in the same nastaliq script none of them have any significant similarities with each other !
And having two national languages where one is Urdu and the other is Bengali opens up a pandora's box of sorts where I, as a Punjabi, would be justified in arguing that if a partisan language like Bengali is to be our national tongue then why not Punjabi the second largest linguistic group ? Or Pashto the 3rd largest linguistic group ? Or Sindhi the 4 the largest ?