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In 1948, Mohammad Ali Jinnah, Pakistan's first Governor-General, declared in Dhaka that "Urdu, and only Urdu" would be the sole official language for all of Pakistan Muhammad Irfan Students of Virtual University of Pakistan.

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I belive it is because Urdu is a mix of languages. It has words derived from Persian, Arabic, Hindi, Bengali, Pashto, etc. And, in some cases, vice-versa. I think its because a good majority could understand simple things. Also, it may be because of the fluidness and poetic culture of the language.

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