Dokument #1327787
IRB – Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada (Autor)
According to the Pakistan High Commission
in Ottawa, the language used in police notices issued by Karachi
offices is either Urdu or English, and sometimes Sindhi (the
provincial official language) [ Telephone conversation of 2 May
1990.]. This information was corroborated by the Pakistan
specialist of the Ottawa Citizen, who added that English was
often used in police notices due to the fact that many people in
cosmopolitan Karachi (mostly recent immigrants) do not speak Urdu [
Telephone conversation of 1 May 1990.]. A Pakistani academic,
prominent member of the Pakistani community in Montréal,
also indicated that English is often used in police notices, even
if police forces are under the jurisdiction of the province
assembly which made Sindhi, along with Urdu, the official language
of administration in the province [ Telephone conversation of 2 May
1990.].
This information could not be corroborated
by the published sources available to the IRBDC in Ottawa.