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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.
In Pakistan, English is an official language along with Urdu and is a compulsory subject taught from primary school level to higher level studies. A student is expected in Pakistan to work in multiple languages such as Urdu, English and an indigenous language as majority of the country is bilingual and the more literate people are mostly ...
Urdu may be treated as the second language or inter-wing language in East Pakistan which can be taught as a second language to those people who will be working in West Pakistan. It will be more than adequate if Urdu is learn by only 5% to 10% of population of East Pakistan. Urdu may be taught in higher classes at the secondary school level in ...
Pakistan's population of children not in school (22.8 million children) is the second largest in the world after Nigeria. [12] According to the data, Pakistan faces a significant unemployment challenge, particularly among its educated youth, with over 31% of them being unemployed.
The development of the Standard Model of particle physics by Sheldon Glashow's discovery in 1960 of a way to combine the electromagnetic and weak interactions. [6] In 1967 Steven Weinberg [ 7 ] and Abdus Salam [ 8 ] incorporated the Higgs mechanism [ 9 ] [ 10 ] [ 11 ] into Glashow's electroweak theory , giving it its modern form.
Pakistan boasts a large English language press and (more recently) media. All of Pakistan's major dailies are published in or have an edition in English. State-run PTV World is a major English Language News Channel in the country, while previously Dawn News and Tribune 24/7 were other English language news channels with one later switching its ...
Badeshi is an unclassified Indo-Iranian language spoken in northern Pakistan. [3] The language is critically endangered and considered at risk of extinction. In 2018, the BBC found three men who could still speak the language. [1] [4] Muhammad Zaman Sagar, a field linguist connected to the Forum for Language Initiative, has worked on this language.
There is a growing English press and media in Pakistan. Several English-language newspapers of national and international repute have taken root in the country, with the most prominent being Dawn, established in the 1940s and Daily Times (Pakistan),The Nation, The News International, The Friday Times, The Express Tribune, The Regional Times of Sindh and Pakistan Observer.