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The Pakistani textbooks controversy refers to claimed inaccuracies and historical denialism. The inaccuracies and myths promote religious intolerance and Indophobia and lead to calls for curriculum reform. According to the Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Pakistan's school textbooks have systematically inculcated anti-Indian ...
Hindi in Pakistan. "Pakistan's Hindi" written in both Urdu and Hindi. Modern Standard Hindi is mutually intelligible with Urdu, the national and official language of Pakistan. Both are standard registers of the Hindustani language. [1][2] As a result of linguistic and cultural similarities, Hindi has had notable influences in Pakistan and is ...
Indo-Pakistani War of 1971. Siachen conflict (1984–2003) Kargil War. Cross-border skirmishes and military standoffs: 1958 East Pakistan-India border clashes. 2001–2002 India–Pakistan standoff. 2008 India–Pakistan standoff. 2011 India–Pakistan border skirmishes. 2013 India–Pakistan border skirmishes.
Hindustani is a pluricentric language with two standard registers, known as Hindi (written in Devanagari script and influenced by Sanskrit) and Urdu (written in Perso-Arabic script and influenced by Persian and Arabic) which serve as official languages of India and Pakistan, respectively. [13] [14] Thus, it is also called Hindi–Urdu.
Hinduism is the second largest religious affiliation in Pakistan after Islam. [3] Though Hinduism was one of the dominant faiths in the region a few centuries ago, [4][5][6] Hindus accounted for just 2.17% of Pakistan's population (approx 5.2 million people) according to the 2023 Pakistani census. [7] With the largest population in eastern ...
During this time Hindustani was the language of both Hindus and Muslims. The non-communal nature of the language lasted until the British Raj in India, when in 1837 Hindustani in the Persian script (i.e. Urdu) replaced Persian as the official language and was made co-official along with English.
India–Pakistan relations. India and Pakistan have a complex and largely hostile relationship that is rooted in a multitude of historical and political events, most notably the partition of British India in August 1947. Two years after World War II, the United Kingdom formally dissolved British India, dividing it into two new sovereign nations ...
Pakistan or the Partition of India. Bombay: Thackers Publishers. K K Aziz, The Murder of History in Pakistan: A critique of history textbooks used in Pakistan, Vanguard Books Pvt Ltd, Lahore, 1993. Seshadri, H. V. (2013). The tragic story of partition. Bangalore : Sahitya Sindhu Prakashana, 2013. Rosser, Yvette.