It is shocking that @LodhiMaleeha who has served as Pakistan's Ambassador at the UN in New York and Amb to US and UK is peddling pure lies in this piece. Or maybe it is not so shocking. Let me educate Ms. Lodhi about Kashmir. dawn.com
Jammu and Kashmir contrary to what you tell yourselves in Pakistan is a multi ethnic, multi lingual region. There are plethora of languages, cultures and ethnicities. Urdu is NOT a language of Kashmir. Nobody in Kashmir speaks Urdu. It is as alien to Kashmir as German is to you.
Urdu imposition as you rightly say in your piece is ‘100 years old’. Kashmir is a 5000 year old civilization. Unbroken civilizational chain of 5000 years. Clearly we were communicating before Urdu was imposed on us. Have you learnt nothing from your East Pakistan debacle?
Our languages are Kashmiri, Dogri, pahadi, ladakhi and many more dialects.Urdu is not one of them.Just because you think Urdu is a language of Muslims therefore Urdu should be imposed on Kashmir only tells your ignorance not just about Kashmir but also about subcontinent.
Another lie : Bhajans are being taught to Muslim students in Kashmir is a lie. What they were taught is a Gandhian hymn and NOT a Hindu bhajan. Go check out the lyrics- ‘ishwar, Allah tero naam’ ..Why would you call this a Hindu prayer? It is not a Hindu bhajan.
I have only learnt from @LodhiMaleeha that script of Kashmiri is being changed from nastaliq to Devanagari. I hope it is true. There is no such proposal right now. But we have been fighting for it. Kashmiri should be written in its original Sharda script.
There are so many lies in @LodhiMaleeha ‘s piece that betray her understanding about Kashmir. Her country wants to occupy Kashmir and this is her knowledge about Kashmiri people and their culture? It is ludicrous. How will you occupy Kashmir with this lack of information 😂
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