Pakistan, Sept. 24 -- With absolute majority in the Indian Parliament, Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP) has passed a bill to include Kashmiri, Dogri and Hindi as official languages of Jammu and Kashmir in addition to English and Urdu. Surprisingly, the government ignored Punjabi language, despite the fact that it has remained an important and well spoken language in the erstwhile state.
With this move, Jammu and Kashmir became the first and the only Union Territory of India with two capital cities, which has five official languages, three of which are limited and customary. Undoubtedly, inclusion of Dogri and Kashmiri to the list of official languages is nothing but a regional politics to appease voters of Jammu and Kashmir, but exclusion of Pun...