Karachi – On Friday evening, Anjuman-e-Taraqqi-e-Urdu (Anjuman for Advancement of Urdu) in a unanimous vote passed a resolution that because of severe abuse of the Urdu letter “Chay”, it is time that it should be replaced to save the Pakistani nation and the Internation Urdu speaking community from moral decline.
The Chairman of ATU called for a grand session of the board’s members. 30 board members came together for the 163rd grand session of ATU where Mr. Zia ul Rehman presented the resolution which stated:
“It has been observed that the Urdu letter “chay” is being excessively abused, especially by ungrateful teenagers of the nation. We believe that “chay” is single handedly destroying the morals of our youth. It has come to our attention that the letter “chay” is proving to be far more dangerous than cable TV and mobile phones.”
“Chay is the root cause of words like “charya” and “chamar” and “chickni”. Initially these words were not in the language. “
The resolution further stated that the letter said would be replaced by the letter “JEEM”. Mr. Zia ur Rehman while presenting the resolution he said that, “Lets strike at the root of all evil. This “chay” has obviously had it’s run and has had it coming. I say that we replace “chay” with “jeem” and remove all the “chays” in our text books and history and this will eventually eradicate the moral decline we’re facing today.”
The other board members then applauded at the emotional presentation of the resolution and started chanting “jeem jeem jeem jeem” and afterwards, they all signed the resolution. Speaking to Roznama Jawani, another board member Mr. Asghar M. Naqvi said that, “I had been wanting to present this resolution myself for quite some time now but I was afraid that the rest of the board members would end up calling me “chay”. Honestly, I am a bit disappointed with myself. This credit could’ve been mine!”
The letter chay is effectively being replaced by jeem which has two less dots. It would mean that the words and sentences that we once knew would now be “baji”, “jamar”, “jutia”, “jikni”… so on and so forth. Because of lack of funds, the Education department has said that the roll out of “Jeem” in the text books could take “up to 70 or 80 years or more.”
