The Pakistani students are likely to derive more advantage from the knowledge of
English than from the knowledge of any other language. In the first place, be
thereby gains access to the varied stores of a noble literature. The advantage
of being able to read in the original the poetry of Milton and Shakespeare. The
histories of Gibbon and Maculae, The novels of Scott, Thackeray, And Dickens,
and the philosophy of Mill. Darwin. And Herbert Spencer is incalculable.
This language also gives the key to the latest
scientific discoveries of the modern world. Every newly- found marvel of science.
Even if originally discovered on the European continent, is sure to be
published with little delay in the pages of English and American works.
For the traveler and the man of business, no
language in more useful than English, which is the mother-tongue of about a hundred
million people, and is acquired for commercial and literary purposes by an
immense number of foreigners. Indeed, the English language is known so widely
over the surface of the globe, and is spreading so rapidly year by ‘ear, that
it bids fair to become in the course of time a kind of universal language known
and spoken all over the world.
Such are among the general advantages derived from
the knowledge of English. But there are, of course. Special reasons who Pakistanis
should master the language. As Pakistan was a part of this British Empire.
English is the official language of this country. An only the very lowest posts
in the service of Government are open to those who are ignorant of it. English
being the language of the courts, Pakistani barristers and solicitors cannot
succeed in the legal profession. Unless they are able to speak it fluently, the
great bulk of the foreign trade of Pakistan being with England, knowledge of English
is essential for all clerks in commercial offices and for those who engage in
trade on their own account.
Finally English is becoming in Pakistan the common language
of all educated men. Whether their vernaculars are Punjabi or Urdu. So that the
business of the national parties. At which representatives from different parts
of Pakistan meet in council, has to be conducted in this language. Moreover CNN
has made the whole World global village. America. Being a super power. Also
uses English language. It will not be wrong to say that at present English is
the language of the whole world.