Govt Websites No Urdu Translation

Islamabad, Supreme Court issued the directives to the federal and provincial governments to adopt Urdu as their official language but the governments have made the national language a laughing stock.
There are more than one dozen websites including Ministry of Defence, Education, Information Technology and the official page of the government has put it on the Google translate at right corner of each page. The computer generated translation has changed the meaning and context of message o r information on the websites.

Lost in Translation



Federal government opted for Google translate instead of making separate page of each website and it has made things worse. The cabinet division website opted Urdu as second language. The translation of the autonomous bodies after word to word translation is independent dead bodies. There are many ministries and federal government departments, which adopted the Urdu translation as joke.

Federal Public Service Commission has shown honesty and made the dedicated page in Urdu and it is comprised of the ordinances and frequently asked questions. The translation of most of the English paragraphs is impossible to understand and the structure of the sentence is different and it does not convey the actual meaning. There is no province, which has a dedicated Urdu portal, which complies with the directives of Supreme Court. Sindh province has some sections, which are written in Urdu but the link is opened in English. The leading writers and columnists said that they are not making mistake but they are joke and they make fun of the directives of Supreme Court. The government departments and ministries are not serious with this issue and they do not get the help of the professional translators to get the correct translation of their English websites.