a strangely dressed Hazara girl traveling with a foreign man in a bandana and Indiana Jones hat. I try speaking with her, but her Dari is garbled. Driver says she is speaking partly Urdu. She says she has a son in Bamyan, and either she or he is sick. I can’t quite understand...
Secondly, East-Pakistani’sresentedMohammedAliJinnah’sdeclarationthat Urdu would be the official state language of East and West Pakistan as mostEast-Pakistanis only spoke Bengali. This linguistic policy not only alienated half ofthe population but also denied participation in Pakistani public or ...