What was the official language declared in the 1956 Constitution of Pakistan? (CSS 2024 Pakistan Affairs Paper)

Urdu
Bengali
Hindi
Both options A & B

The Constitution of 1956 was a written and flexible Constitution. It advocated for the fundamental rights of the individuals. However, the President had the power to suspend these rights in case of emergency. Judiciary was to remain independent. Urdu and Bengali both were accepted as State languages while English was to remain official language for the first twenty-five years. After ten years of the passage of the Constitution, the President was to appoint a commission with the task to make recommendation for the replacement of English as the official language.

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