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<div class="">By <a href="http://tribune.com.pk/author/80/ppi/" title="Posts by PPI ">PPI </a> / <a href="http://tribune.com.pk/author/303/our-correspondent/" title="Posts by Our Correspondent">Our Correspondent</a></div>
<div class="" title="2014-09-24T22:02:14 GMT">Published: September 25, 2014</div>
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SU acting vice-chancellor Dr Imdad Ismaili said that those nations who
denounce their mother tongues do not progress. DESIGN: ANAM HALEEM </p>
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<div><strong class="">HYDERABAD: </strong>
<p><strong>At a seminar held to discuss how literature can help curb
extremism, speakers reiterated the demand to accord national status to
the Sindhi language and enforce the law on teaching it as a compulsory
subject in schools.</strong></p>
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<p>The seminar was titled ‘Can Extremism be Brought to an End with
Literature?’ and was organised by the Mirza Kaleech Baig chair of the
Sindh University (SU) on Wednesday. SU acting vice-chancellor Dr Imdad
Ismaili said that those nations who denounce their mother tongues do not
progress.</p>
<p>The speakers also addressed issues such as honour killings, wedding
with the Quran and underage marriages. Another speaker, Mumtaz Ali Rind,
said that forced marriages and child marriages were a curse in Sindhi
culture which is also a form of extremism.</p>
<p>Abbas Korejo said that those people who want to impose their ideology
forcibly are extremists. He added that Sindh needed a scientific
society instead of ‘mere Sufism’ because it could only develop and
progress with modern education and literature.</p>
<p>Marvi Shaikh said that the English language was imposed on the Indian
subcontinent in a bid to control the minds of the people so that they
lead their lives in constant slavery. She said that the language policy
was introduced in 1835 by the British and needs to be changed now. “We
have to get our basic education in Sindhi language and we demand of the
government that Sindhi language be given the status of a national
language,” she said.</p>
<p><em>Published in The Express Tribune, September 25<sup>th</sup>, 2014.</em></p><p><a href="http://tribune.com.pk/story/766726/speakers-demand-national-status-for-sindhi-language/">http://tribune.com.pk/story/766726/speakers-demand-national-status-for-sindhi-language/</a><br><em></em></p><p><em><br></em></p><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>**************************************<br>N.b.: Listing on the lgpolicy-list is merely intended as a service to its members<br>and implies neither approval, confirmation nor agreement by the owner or sponsor of the list as to the veracity of a message's contents. Members who disagree with a message are encouraged to post a rebuttal, and to write directly to the original sender of any offensive message. A copy of this may be forwarded to this list as well. (H. Schiffman, Moderator)<br><br>For more information about the lgpolicy-list, go to <a href="https://groups.sas.upenn.edu/mailman/">https://groups.sas.upenn.edu/mailman/</a><br>listinfo/lgpolicy-list<br>*******************************************
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