This study aims at studying language planning (LP) in Urdu, Punjabi, Pashto, Sindhi, Baluchi and
Siraiki, with a view to understanding how it is related to political policies, aims and motivations. The
study is divided into two sections. Section one provides a theoretical framework for interpreting the
processes involved in, and the explicit and implicit goals of, LP; section two studies LP in Pakistan with
reference to the aforementioned languages.