1972 Language violence in Sindh

none 1972 Language violence in Sindh occurred starting on 7 July 1972 when the Sindh Assembly passed The Sindhi Teaching, Promotion and Use of Sindhi Language Bill, 1972 which established Sindhi language as the sole official language of the province resulting in language violence in the Sindh province of Pakistan. https://herald.dawn.com/news/1153263 1972 riots: Was it a language issue? Herald (Pakistan) 23 September 2015 14 February 2016https://www.dawn.com/news/754685 A leaf from history: Language frenzy in Sindh InpaperMagazine From 2012-10-06 dawn.com en 2018-12-11 The proclamation of Sindhi as the official language of Sindh caused the Daily Jang, an Urdu language newspaper in Karachi, to publish a full-page story on their front page surrounded by a banner with the statement "Urdu ka janaza hai zara dhoom sey niklay" (It is the funeral of Urdu thus should be a flaunting one) by Rais Amrohvi. http://letusbuildpakistan.blogspot.ca/2008/12/urdu-ka-janazah-hay-zara-dhoom-se-nikle.html Urdu ka janazah hay zara dhoom se nikle By Mosharraf Zaidi 23 December 2006 14 February 2016 Violence Violent clashes erupted in Karachi and other towns in Sindh Province, Pakistan, resulting in the deaths of at least 19 people on the third day of protests over the choice of Sindhi as the official provincial language.1972-07-11 PAKISTANI TOLL 47 IN LANGUAGE RIOTS en-US The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/1972/07/11/archives/pakistani-toll-47-in-language-riots-19-reported-killed-in-new.html 2023-07-20 0362-4331 The demonstrations were triggered by a bill passing Sindhi as the official language instead of Urdu, spoken by half of Karachi's Muhajir population.Exclusive Fahad Naveed Umer Farooq Herald 2015-03-25 Tongue-tied: The politics of language https://www.dawn.com/news/1169935 2023-07-20 DAWN.COM en The army was brought in to enforce a 24-hour curfew. In total, 47 people were killed in the unrest. Then President Zulfikar Ali Bhutto planned to meet with both language proponents to find a resolution. Aftermath In 1972, when the PPP-led Sindh government declared Sindhi as the province's official language, groups of Muhajir students formed the Muttahida Tulaba Mahaz Karachi (MTMK). The movement started by organizing a protest-movement by changing the number plates of motor vehicles into Urdu alphabets and numerals and had vandalized English signboards. Riots later broke out between the Sindh police and the MTMK in Karachi and between Sindhi and Muhajir youth elsewhere in urban Sindh.Paracha Nadeem F. 2019-01-13 SMOKERS’ CORNER: THE EVOLUTION OF MOHAJIR CONSCIOUSNESS https://www.dawn.com/news/1457088 2023-01-29 DAWN.COM en See also 1972 Sindhi Language Bill References 30em External links Language Bill creates violence When People Came to Blows Over Language: The Sindh Language Zulfikar Ali Bhutto's speech at Dadu(Sindh) on language riots Category:Politics of Sindh Category:Riots and civil disorder in Pakistan 1972 Language violence in Sindh 1972 Language violence in Sindh Category:Race riots in Pakistan Category:Sindhi language Category:July 1972 in Asia Category:20th-century political riots Language violence in Sindh