Amritsar, May 10 : Punjabi is spoken as the first language by 45 percent of Pakistan’s population, and yet it does not have any official status in Pakistan.
Given this surprising fact, it causes amazement when a propagandist entity like Radio Pakistan blatantly suggests that the language is losing its ground in East or the Indian side of Punjab.
In Pakistan and India, the Punjabi language has many dialects, developed over a period of over 1000 years. Some of the more popular ones are: Majhi, Jhangvi, Shahpuri, Pothowari and Hindko to name a few.