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There is a nascent language movement, [4] and in recent decades Hindko-speaking intellectuals have started promoting the view of Hindko as a separate language. [5] There is a literary tradition based on Peshawari , [ 6 ] the urban variety of Peshawar in the northwest, and another one based on the language of Abbottabad in the northeast. [ 7 ]
English is a co-official language of Pakistan and is widely used in the executive, legislative and judicial branches as well as to some extent in the officer ranks of Pakistan's armed forces. Pakistan's Constitution and laws were written in English and are now being re-written in the local languages.
Peshawar and Afghan standards also differ in the way they spell Western loanwords. Afghan spellings are influenced by Persian/Dari orthography, and through it often borrows French and German forms of the words, while Pakistani orthography is influenced by Urdu spellings of English words.
The Express Tribune is a daily English-language newspaper based in Pakistan.It is the flagship publication of the Lakson Group media group. [1] It is Pakistan's only internationally affiliated newspaper in a partnership with the International New York Times, the global edition of The New York Times.
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English Karachi, Hyderabad – 28 The Star: Karachi 1951 Dawn Group's evening newspaper; now defunct 29 The Statesman: Peshawar 2002 30 Pakistan Today: Lahore, Karachi, Islamabad 2010 31 Daily Pakistan: Urdu Lahore, Islamabad, Karachi, Peshawar 1997 32 The Express Tribune: English Karachi, Lahore, Islamabad, Peshawar 2010 33 Daily Dunya: Urdu
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When the paper was founded in 1985, there were no prominent journalists based in the area, and its original editor Aziz Siddiqi was neither an ethnic Pukhtoon (the dominant population of Peshawar) nor from a Pukhtoon area. [1] Former Khyber Pakhtunkhwa governor Fazle Haq along with several entrepreneurs were engaged in founding the paper. [2 ...