{"id":63674,"date":"2024-02-23T22:44:07","date_gmt":"2024-02-23T22:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/scholars-discuss-threats-to-local-languages-the-express-tribune\/"},"modified":"2024-02-23T22:44:07","modified_gmt":"2024-02-23T22:44:07","slug":"scholars-discuss-threats-to-local-languages-the-express-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/scholars-discuss-threats-to-local-languages-the-express-tribune\/","title":{"rendered":"Scholars discuss threats to local languages | The Express Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\">\n<strong class=\"location-names\"><br \/>\nISLAMABAD:<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:black\">The Pakistan Academy of Letters (PAL) organised a seminar titled \u2018Problems faced by Pakistani languages\u2019 in connection with International Mother Language Day recently.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:black\">Prominent Balochi poet Dr Wahid Bakhsh Buzdar presided over the seminar while a potohari writer Sharif Shad was the chief guest at the event. PAL\u2019s Director General Sultan Nasir also spoke on the occasion.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:black\">Dr Manzoor Ali Veesrio represented Sindhi language, Iqbal Hussain Afkar, Pashto, Dr Qasim Yaqub, Urdu, Aamir Zaheer Bhatti, Punjabi, Ziauddin, Hindko, Muhammad Ashfaq Abbasi, Pahari and Sharif Shad represented Potohari language while other scholars represented their respective languages.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:black\"><strong>Read<\/strong>:\u00a0<\/span><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/tribune.com.pk\/story\/2457228\/punjabi-language-must-be-in-curriculum\">\u2018Punjabi language must be in curriculum\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:black\">Talking about the significance of local languages, Dr Buzdar said that the language has hundreds of years of cultural heritage, therefore, this cultural heritage needs to be transferred to the new generation through languages. \u2018There is a dire need for keeping the mother languages at the primary education level. Language is also closely related to the economy, therefore, we have to commit today that we will try to save our local languages.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:black\">Sultan Nasir stressed the need for the promotion and protection of Pakistani languages, saying that it was important that local languages be considered as sources of strength and diversity rather than sources of conflict. \u201cWith the help of modern technology, we can promote Pakistani languages given the nation\u2019s linguistic and cultural richness.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:black\">Nasir said that the academy is working on a priority to promote Pakistani languages and the platform of the academy is present for his purpose.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"background-color:white\">Published in The Express Tribune, February 23<sup>rd<\/sup>, 2024.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Academy of Letters (PAL) organised a seminar titled \u2018Problems faced by Pakistani languages\u2019 in connection with International Mother Language Day recently. Prominent Balochi poet Dr Wahid Bakhsh Buzdar presided over the seminar while a potohari writer Sharif Shad was the chief guest at the event. PAL\u2019s Director General Sultan Nasir also spoke [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":63675,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/i.tribune.com.pk\/media\/images\/708549-scholarshipsPHOTOFILE-1400102221\/708549-scholarshipsPHOTOFILE-1400102221.JPG","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[203],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-faisalabad-news"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63674\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}