<P> Kashmiri (كأشُر) is a Dardic language spoken in Azad Kashmir, about 124,000 speakers (or 2% of the Azad Kashmir population). </P> <P> English is a co-official language of Pakistan and is widely used in the executive, legislative and judicial branches as well as to some extent in the officer ranks of Pakistan's armed forces . Pakistan's Constitution and laws were written in English and are now being re-written in the local languages . It is also widely used in schools, colleges and universities as a medium of instruction . English is seen as the language of upward mobility, and its use is becoming more prevalent in upper social circles, where it is often spoken alongside native Pakistani languages . In 2015, it was announced that there were plans to promote Urdu in official business, but Pakistan's Minister of Planning Ahsan Iqbal stated, "Urdu will be a second medium of language and all official business will be bilingual ." He also went on to say that English would be taught alongside Urdu in schools . </P> <P> Arabic (عربي) is the religious language of Muslims . The Quran, Sunnah, Hadith and Muslim theology is taught in Arabic with Urdu translation . The Pakistani diaspora living in the Middle East has further increased the number of people who can speak Arabic in Pakistan . Arabic is taught as a religious language in mosques, schools, colleges, universities and madrassahs . A majority of Pakistan's Muslim population has had some form of formal or informal education in the reading, writing and pronunciation of the Arabic language as part of their religious education . </P> <P> Persian (فارسی) was the official and cultural language of the Mughal Empire, a continuation since the introduction of the language by Central Asian Turkic invaders who migrated into the Indian Subcontinent, and the patronisation of it by the earlier Turko - Persian Delhi Sultanate . Persian was officially abolished with the arrival of the British: in Sindh in 1843 and in Punjab in 1849 . It is today spoken primarily by the Dari speaking refugees from Afghanistan and the Hazara community of Quetta . </P>

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