Posted on January 18, 2008 by Dr Farrukh Malik
This is an English translation of an open letter written by Altaf Hussain, Chairman Mutahida Qaumi Movement (MQM), to Sindhis. This letter has started a heated debate in Sindh in particular and Pakistan in general. I happened to read it in Urdu and tried to find the English version of the same online but all [...]
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Posted on November 5, 2007 by Dr Farrukh Malik
Sindhi is regional language of Pakistan along with Punjabi, Pashto and Balochi side by side. Apart from this, several other languages are also being spoken in Pakistan e.g. Siraiki, Hindko etc. Urdu claims the status of National language. Since blogging, even in English, is not that common in Pakistan; it was hardly expected to find blogs in Sindhi. The Pakistani blog aggregator blogger.pk has no Sindhi blog listed. Having this idea in my mind, I started search for Sindhi blogs in Cyberspace. My first step in this regard was to run a search in some search engine. Since Google stays my first priority regarding web searches so I knocked at the Google’s door and results were not disappointing [...]
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