Persian language in Pakistan

Persian has been the official language of Pakistan until modern times. The modern region of Pakistan has been part of many Iranian and Persian empires since its discovery, and many varieties of Persian, including Dari, had been the language of communication between the different ethnicities. In Pakistan, Persian has now become a minority language and has been replaced by Urdu by the British. Islamabad and Tehran maintain an active archival library in F-8. The library is named after a local poet, Pir Shah Ghareeb Nawaz, and is the largest archive of Persian literature this side of the Indus. Farsi is now only a minority language in Pakistan, though it used to be the language of the Royals of the Muslim Mughal Empire. The British Raj disturbed this status quo, and Farsi no longer serves as the cultural and official language. Instead, Farsi has now mainly been replaced by Urdu, also imposed by the former remnants of British India.

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