Azal Arshad

@_innocent_AHIR @rollingp4ki It was widely popularized and refined into its modern and diverse forms under the mughal patronage

@AzalArshad @rollingp4ki When did kathak became mughal😂😭

@wagarrwal @BeanstalkerJake I am not anti-Perisan. I speak persian. I learnt it because I consider it a part of my heritage. Persian had its role and its own heyday. Then it was superseded by Urdu at around the 1720s. Even in sindh, even in the communication between pashtuns and punjabis

@BeanstalkerJake This is a good example of what I mean when I say Pakistani nationalists are anti-Persian because they see Persian as competition to Urdu. Their Anglicism is incidental, not purposeful. This person is washing away the existence of many centuries of Persian and attributing it all to Urdu in an attempt to legitimize Urdu imposition. He is also a pan-Indianist/South Asianist that considers Urdu a local language based on identification with the entire Indian Subcontinent. He even openly said Pakistan is Northern India instead of the usual dog whistle terms like "South Asia" used by most Paknats. This is why I say opposition to Persian is rooted in pan-Indianism, not Anglicism. He is literally arguing in opposition to both English and Persian and in favor of Urdu. Also, the pro-Urdu Paknat user I quoted initially literally has "Vedic Astrology" in his bio.

“Could Pakistanis communicate without Urdu?” This post is written in English and virtually all comments in the replies under this post are in English despite the fact almost everyone commenting is a Pakistani living in Pakistan. Most of Pakistani Twitter in general uses English over Urdu.

@wagarrwal You're so adamant in your denial brother. I hope you research more with an open mind on this topic

Urdu was never official language or widely used in any province of Pakistan before the British. Under the British, only a tiny minority of educated elite used it. It only became widespread Similarity to Urdu has to do with both Urdu and Pakistani languages having lots of Persian/Arabic words.

@hazelnutdior you can do a simple google search with an open mind or continue to be ignorant

@AzalArshad Please stop talking out of your ass.

Wonder how Sindhis and Punjabis lived side by side and communicated for thousands of years before Urdu was a thing?

@Jamalhuss15 @GhabranaNahiHay you can do a simple search on google and see for yourself

@AzalArshad @GhabranaNahiHay Wow, are you too client of Anmol Pinky? My great grandfather never spoke Urdu! He moved to Sindh not long before Pakistan was created.

It's a lie sold by sindhis like shehzad ghias that Urdu was imposed. And they refer to 1952 incident. Let me ask you. Could benaglis and people of West Pakistan communicate without urdu? Even all regions of Pakistan can't survive without urdu even in 2026.

@matwarkh_shah @wagarrwal even in the courts the medium of communication was urdu, the medium of issuing correspondence was urdu, despite there being strong presence of local languages. That's why if someone doesn't understand what you said there is an phrase for it "mein koi farsi bol raha houn?"

@matwarkh_shah @wagarrwal and yes, persian was the court language because it was a language of prestige like arabic is for us today. not a language or medium of communication. People did not understand Farsi at all and have not understood it for centuries in india expect for a handful of educated people

@wagarrwal urdu was the dominant language and every other language absorbed it (once again i state that it did not start after independence but might have accelerated it for sure). But if you are promoting a lingua franca you should keep in mind that urdu is our inheritance, not English

@wagarrwal When you say English is more useful you are right as it has become the global language thanks to the British Empire. All languages will absorb English as it is already evident in all the languages of Pakistan including urdu. the same happened some centuries ago when

@talhaahmad127 Pakistan as a state is the modern successor of political islam in the subcontinent. That definitely includes being a successor to the Mughals and as a result their culture like Kathak. It is in the cultural virasat of Pakistan

This is a good point. My point necessarily isn’t about banning Kathak or something. I t’s simply about asking a question about whether we should be paying attention to Kathak while we leapfrog our own indigenous cultural dances.

@GhabranaNahiHay Local languages are beautiful. But the popularity of Urdu is historically evident in the modern forms of these local languages we speak. For Example, 30% of punjabi vocabulary is borrowed from Urdu. That is why they are so similar to hear.

@GhabranaNahiHay another misconception is that urdu is a combination of turkish, arabic and farsi. which it is not but an indigenous language to the subcontinent. It is a living language that absorbed the high languages of the age but always was the common tongue of the ordinary population