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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.
Pakistani English (Paklish, Pinglish, PakEng, en-PK [2] [3]) is a group of English-language varieties spoken in Pakistan and among the Pakistani diaspora. [4] English is the primary language used by the government of Pakistan , alongside Urdu , on the national level.
Despite Urdu being Pakistan's lingua franca, estimates on how many languages are spoken in the country range from 75 to 85, [7] [8] and in 2023, the country's three largest ethnolinguistic groups were the Punjabis (making up 36.98% of the total population), the Pashtuns (18.15%), and the Sindhis (14.31%). [9]
Language(s) Launched Closed Headquarters Refs Business Plus: Urdu & English: July 2004 April 2018 Karachi [32] [33] Express 24/7: English 5 February 2009 2019 [34] Waqt News: Urdu: 2007 29 October 2018 Lahore [35] Punjab TV Punjabi: 2007 2019 Aap News Urdu: 2018 2020 Islamabad [36] Indus News: English: 2018 2021 Lahore
Oldest continuously published Urdu language newspaper in Pakistan 9 Daily The Patriot [4] English Islamabad, Lahore – 10 Khabrain (Urdu: خبریں) Urdu Islamabad, Lahore, Karachi, Hyderabad, Multan, Muzafarabad, Peshawer, Sukker 1992 11 Daily Express (Urdu: ایکسپریس) Islamabad, Karachi, Lahore, Faisalabad, Quetta, Peshawar, Multan 1998
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 .
Languages; English, Urdu, Punjabi, ... Hindko, other languages of Pakistan and languages spoken in respective country of residence. ... Total overseas Pakistani ...
It is home to the fourth most spoken language in the world, Hindi–Urdu; the seventh most spoken language, Bengali; and thirteenth most spoken language, Punjabi. [note 1] Languages like Bengali, Tamil and Nepali have official/national status in more than one country of this region.