Five Urdu Bloggers From Pakistan Everyone Should Know · Global Voices

Five Urdu Bloggers From Pakistan Everyone Should Know · Global Voices: "Five Urdu Bloggers From Pakistan Everyone Should Know
Posted 2 April 2014 2:42 GMT
Pakistanis like me blog and tweet in English because that is our comfort zone.

Pakistani private schools, many of which were legacy British colonial institutions (or pretend to be) had a bias for English. We were left to learn our Urdu skills by ourselves. Blogging in English also allows us to connect with an international audience and share views that counter the image of a singular “Pakistan” projected by international mainstream media. 

There are however, tens of thousands of Pakistanis conversing on the Internet in Urdu, our other national language. These bloggers are the most popular within the country. Unfortunately, due to Google indexing and the difficulty of typesetting and coding Urdu's Nastaʿlīq alphabet, English language blogs from Pakistan dominate search.

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