The Pakistani students
are likely to derive more education from the knowledge of English than from the
other languages. 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 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 of latest scientific discoveries of the world.
Every newly-found marvel of science, even if originally discovered on 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 is more useful than
English, which is mother tongue of about hundred million people, and is acquired
for commercial and literacy purposes for an immense number of foreigners. Indeed
the English language is known so widely over the surface of the globe, and is
spreading widely and rapidly year by year. 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 why Pakistani’s should master the
language. As Pakistan was a part of British Empire, English is the official
language of Pakistan, and 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 law courts, Pakistani barristers and solicitors cannot succeed in the
legal profession, unless they are 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 be Punjabi or Urdu, so that the business of
national properties , 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 super power also uses English
language. It will not be wrong to say that at present English is language of
whole world.