However, Pakistan’s current policies, which prioritize English for socio-economic mobility and Urdu for national unity, often exclude speakers of regional languages, exacerbating inequities.

Mr Samejo said this movement was not only for granting national language status to Sindhi but for recognising all languages of Pakistan as national languages, including Punjabi and Siraiki.

In case of Pakistan, Urdu was declared as a national language despite the fact that it was not the mother tongue of the majority and was considered only as a lingua franca. As a result ...