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Still didn't get it? Almost half a century has passed since the debacle of east Pakistan, you guys should have understood it by now.
Just like Pashtoons, Sindhis and Balochs; the Bengalis also loved their mother tongue as it was an integral part of their identity, history and culture. It was always obvious that they would never treat their mother tongue as the Punajbis and Karachiwalas wanted them to do.
Bengalis produced world known writers and thinkers like Rabindranath Tagore who refined and enriched their language, whereas shair e mashriq wrote in a language which is all Greek even to those who call it their mother tongue. The heavy dose of Persian and Arabic words and phrases go straight over their heads. The confused shair e mashriq could never decide whether he was a proud Hindustani, a Punjabi, Kashmiri or a sipahi in the army of Khaled bin Waleed. Therefore, here we have a totally confused nation lead by the more confused people of Punjab.
Pashto should not only be made the provincial language of KP, but it should also be given the status of a national language. Lahoris can talk to each other in THEIR "refined" Urdu, it bothers nobody.
We treat our Mother Tongue fine & it is an integral part of our identity as well ! We've produced writers & poets who eclipsed some of the best the world has to offer. Playing the victim here isn't going achieve anything when no one is advocating our regional languages to be stifled forcefully.
Pashto, Punjabi, Sindhi, Baloch & so on & so forth should be offered to every citizen of Pakistan if certain operational conditions are met ! Were the Government of Pakistan ever so against the nurturing & the cultivation of these languages you wouldn't have a myriad language academy popping up in every Provincial Capital of the country. Its negligence not malice that you racists like to see it to be.
As far as a Pakistan led by a more confused Punjab is concerned; a Pakistan led by a Pukhtoon & a Sindhi got us into '65 & later a Pakistan led by a Pukthoon, a Sindhi, a Bengali & two Pukhtoon Generals got half of the country lost so if you want to play the 'ethnic card' to demonize one ethnicity in preference to the other than know where you stand !
As far Iqbal is concerned; your abject failure to understand what he was saying makes for an ever amusing read !