Pakistan approves Mandarin as official language

     Written by : SMTV24x7 | Tue, Feb 20, 2018, 04:30 PM

Pakistan approves Mandarin  as official language

Islamabad Feb 20: In a Suprise Move to improve the Ties with China Pakistan Senate on Monday approved a motion to declare Mandarin as one of the official languages of Pakistan.

Officials have said that "The motion said the step was necessary in view of ties between Pakistan and China and the relationship between Islamabad and Beijing would deepen further and help the people connected with the China Pakistan Economic Corridor communicate easily if Mandarin was made the official language of the South Asian nation."

Pakistan's Ambassador to the US Hussain Haqqani has tweeted that:"In a short span of 70 years, Pakistan has flirted with promoting four languages that were not the mother tongue of many people in the country - English, Urdu, Arabic, and now Chinese -- ignoring native languages."

Experts said that Pakistan has taken this decision to please China which is imposing obstacles on the construction of CPEC.