God's sake get up and tell us that it is fraud, it is not the voice of the people, it is only the call of a few people and I will take back all my words which I have spoken in favour of Bengali. But if on the other hand, this is certain that this is the urge of people, this is the desire of the majority of the people of Pakistan, then I do not see any reason why you are putting back the issue and why you are adding to the troubles of the Government and the people of Pakistan. Sir we know and all of us know that here are countries in within there are three languages spoken. Take Switzerland, there is German, there is French and there is Italian spoken. Take the question of Canada. There is French and English both. Take the question of our country; why cannot we have two languages? Why should we oppose it? We, who have been speaking English for the last 200 years, we are going to oppose that language, the language of the majority of the people of this country? I have got no hesitation. Sir, in saying that we, in the Punjab, and we people who think sensibly about the future of Pakistan, we have got no desire to float the language issue and otheraspiration's of the people of East Pakistan.
Sir, I am sure, if we have Bengali as one of the State languages, it will lead to stronger ties and stronger friendship between the two wings of Pakistan. There will be people here in West Pakistan who will be learning Bengali and there will be people in Bengal who will be learning Urdu so that by this interchange of languages, by this compulsory learning of the languages of both wings of Pakistan, we are going to forge ties which it will be impossible to break by an artificial manner. Therefore, Sir, if we are going to have stronger ties and friendship and brotherhood between the two wings of Pakistan, we should give up this motionalism and came forward with open hands and say that we are accepting your language, not that you are in a majority but because we want to make Pakistan-stronger and our brotherhood stronger and a real and effective thing. We are coming forward to accept the language of your country as at par with Urdu which is the spoken language of certain people in West Pakistan. Sir, if we do not do that, if we do not come to rationalism, if we keep on being emotional, if we keep on putting it away for political reasons, then, Sir, I assure my friends opposite that they are not today shelving, the issue Bengali language, but they are shelving the very foundation of Pakistan being laid on a proper basis. By trying to put off this issue they are going to create trouble in the mind of the East Bengal people who might think-and think wronglythat we, in West Pakistan, are trying to dominate them. We have got no desire whatever to dominate any one part or any Province or any people of this country. We want all the people and all the Province to get up together and with proper co-operation and friendship with each other, we should grow into a mighty nation which is our right to be.
Therefore, Sir, in the interest of Pakistan's solidarity, in the interest of our people, in the interest of Bengal, Punjab, Sind, Frontier and Baluchistan, I am going to ask my friends in the Government, do not keep on shelving these issues, do not keep on putting off the real issues of the country, do not keep on putting off the need of the day. Be brave, be the worthy followers of Quaid-i-Azam, the worthy successors of Quaid-iAzam, behave like true successors of Quaid-i-Azam and get up and do as he would have done in a different situation like this and accept this language issue. Do not do a thing which is going to disrupt the very strength of our nation.
