- Chaudhry Nazeer Kahut, born on December 26, 1956, in a remote village called Dhudhian , situated on the banks of the river Hydespius (Jhelum) in Shahpur/Sargodah/Punjab, is the founder and convener of the Punjabi Language Movement (Punjabi Zaban Tehreek) and several other nationalist Punjabi political
organizations., a Punjabi rights movement struggling to have Punjabi declared and enforced as the medium of instruction, as well as the official, judicial, and parliamentary language of Punjab. - On March 29, 1990, while living in Karachi (Sindh), Nazeer Kahut launched the Karachi-based "Lok Seva Pakistan," a nationalist Punjabi rights organization, dedicated to uniting Punjabis and defending and upholding Punjabi rights both in Karachi (Sindh) and Punjab. While issuing the policy statement, Kahut stressed his four-point Punjabi nationalist agenda and vowed to: (1) resist division of motherland
Punjab, whether linguistic or administrative; (b) fight for the rights of Punjabis living in Karachi, interior Sindh, and Punjab; and (c) do whatever is possible through peaceful means to have Punjabi declared as the medium of instruction as well as the sole official, judicial, and parliamentary language of the province of Punjab. - On October 6, 1994, Chaudhry Nazeer Kahut, President of Lok Seva Pakistan, while addressing a press conference at the Lahore Press Club, announced the launch of a movement to resist the division of Punjab, saying that the division of Punjab, be it administrative or linguistic, is absolutely unacceptable and will be fiercely resisted with full force no matter what the cost may be.
- Nazeer Kahut became the first ever Punjabi nationalist in the known history of Punjab (Pakistan) who, to raise his voice against the criminalized, ill intended, unconstitutional, and illegal division of Punjab, launched Lok Seva, a movement in 1990 generally known as Punjab Bachao Tehreek (Save Punjab Movement), to save Punjab from further disintegration and to resist the division of Punjab. According to Kahut, Punjab is the ancestral home of present and future Punjabi generations. Punjab has existed as an inseparable ethnic, linguistic, cultural, administrative, geographical, and national entity for generations. At all costs, Punjabs integrity and unity will be safeguarded and upheld.
- “Lok Seva” launched in 1990 has been considered the first ever politically active Punjabi Nationalist organization in the recorded history of Punjab.(All of the activates of the organizations are all reported, recorded and preserved in Karachi’s Dawn, Jang, Nawaewaqt and other Urdu and English newspapers).
- As its editor and publisher, Kahut began publishing the first-ever trilingual newsmagazine in Punjabi, Urdu, English, and English monthly “The Genius” from Karachi in 1992 to further the Punjabi cause and the Punjabi Movement among Punjabis.
- For the first time, modern Punjabi nationalism and the ideology of the Punjabi Nationalist Movement were clearly defined, expressed in a systematic and scientific manner, and presented in their true spirit in Aao Punjabi Ko Qatel Kerain, a research and reference book written by Nazeer Kahut and published for Karachi in 1992.
- Nazeer Kahut established the Punjabi Rights Movement on social media in 2008, making him the first ever nationalist Punjabi to do so. At the time, no Punjabi would have dared to express their views on the division of Punjab, in favor of the rights of the Punjabi language, or against Urdu on social media. Kahut was threatened ,harassed and abused by several fake Punjabi IDs created by some treacherous pseudo-Punjabi intellectuals, NGOs, and vested interests back in 2014 on social media, as they were supporters of Urdu in Punjab and were in line with the official policy to divide Punjab and promote dialects of Punjabi as independent languages. As soon as Kahut started speaking out for Punjabi causes on social media, he became the target and victim of fake Punjabis and vested interests, both directly and indirectly. The fake Punjabis IDs involved in Kahuts character assassination and in spreading disinformation against him are active on social media to date. None of these traitors, vested interests, fifth columnists and anti-Punjab gangs , however, were able to overthrow or alter Kahuts national narrative of Punjab and the Punjabi movement, which he introduced and actively promoted for forty years and of which he is the sole founder. No power on earth could deter him from preaching, advocating, or supporting the Punjabi movement and Punjab’s national narrative.
- Nazeer Kahut, having moved back from Canada to Lahore in 2009, organized the first ever Punjabi National Conference on August 8, 2009, to organize Punjabis to defend the integrity and solidarity of motherland Punjab and to fight the imperialist and evil forces conspiring to divide Punjab under the self-created pseudo- nationalities, languages, and cultures. In the first ever political move under the auspices of the Punjabi Conference meant to oppose the division of Punjab a large number of Punjabi activists, nationalists, and writers, including Shafqat Tanveer Mirza and Fakher Zaman, participated The Conference condemned the attempts to divide Punjab and adapted resolutions asking the federal and Punjab governments to withdraw all the resolutions introduced in the Punjab Assembly, National Assembly, and Senate to divide Punjab further under any pretext.
- On August 8, 2010, a Second Punjabi National Conference was held in Lahore, once again demanding that the PPP, PTI, PML-N, Punjab Assembly, National Assembly, and Senate of Pakistan withdraw the illegal, unconstitutional resolutions intended to criminally divide Punjab.
- Nazeer Kahut is the sole Punjabi activist who put in the effort over the course of four decades to transform the Lahore based dead, confused, mislead poetry-reciting, opportunist, job-seeking, and government- sponsored cultural platform hijacked by foreign funded Lahore based anti Punjab and anit Punjabi foreign funded NGO’s into a vibrant, outspoken, political, and global movement.
- The Punjabi Language Movement (PLM) was organised by Nazeer Kahut in 2010, and the PLM headquarters was set up in Lahore. Nazeer Kahut, the movements founder, convener, and leader, while addressing a press conference at the Lahore Press Club, along with other like-minded Punjabi nationalists, officially launched the Punjabi Language Movement- PLM (Punjabi Zaban Tehreek), on December 31, 2010.First time Punjabi Language Movement was officially launched by Nazeer Kahut . PLM stands for the adoption of Punjabi as the medium of instruction from Primary to Intermediate level as Well as, official ,judicial and parliamentary language of the Punjab. And vehemently opposes splitting Punjab.
- Kahut is the only active and persistent supporter of Punjabi nationalism who has urged the federal government to abolish the unlawful and unconstitutional The Federal Commission for the Division of Punjab, which travels to Sindh and invites non-Punjabi immigrants to settle there, can get as many provinces as they want in Punjab.
- Nazeer Kahut, under the auspices of Punjabi Language Movement, declared and celebrated the first ever “Punjabi Cultural Day” on Wesakh 1, or April 13, 2011, in the known history of Punjab.And announced to celebrated “Wesakh First as Punjabi Cultural Day” every year. August 15–17 was declared and is to be observed as Punjab Martyrs Day annually. Nazeer Kahut stated on social media on August 14, 2018, that the Punjabi Language Movement and Punjab Bachao Tehreek will observe August 15–17 as Punjab Maryers Day every year.The statement followed the Punjab government refusal to erect a monument in memory of the one million unnamed, innocent Punjabis who were mercilessly slaughtered during the bloody partition of Punjab.
- The Punjabi Language Movement will also observe March 29 as the Black Day of Punjab, Kahut proclaimed. After having annexed Punjab on 29 March 1849 East India Company began burning Punjabi language books all over Punjab, banned mother tongue education in Punjab, and imposed an alien language, Urdu, as a medium of instruction and Punjab’s official language along with English. Which is inhuman act ,completely illegal, unconstitutional and absolutely not acceptable.
- Punjabi Language Movement(PLM) will observe 16 November as the Killer Day of Punjabi Language all over Punjab and around the globe to protest against the adaptation of the so-called Urdu Language Act 2022, passed by the Punjab Assembly on November 16, 2022, illegally and unconstitutionally declaring an alien language as Punjab’s official, national, and educational language instead of Punjabi. PLM founder Nazeer Kahut stated announced on December 1, 2022.He further said that Instead of legislating the Punjabi Language Act, the Punjab Assembly, by adapting the Urdu Language Act 2022 , effectively violated the constitution, which is treasonous.
- Nazeer Kahut played a significant role in the Punjabi Movement, as well as in cultural and civil rights. No Punjabi other than Nazeer Kahut in the recorded history of Punjab is known as a sole, vocal, and outspoken advocate for Punjab, its integrity, solidarity, Punjabi language and Punjabi rights.
- Kahut is certain that the 8000-year-old Harrappan civilization, which was followed by the ancient Texila civilization 3000 years ago, is where the foundations of the Punjabi language, literature, art, culture, history, and geography may be found. As a result, Punjab has existed as an inseparable ethnic, linguistic, cultural, administrative, and geographic national unit for thousands of years and serves as the ancestral home of our ancestors, the Punjabi nation, and future Punjabi generations. Nazeer Kahut has been associated with the Punjabi rights movement (Punjab and the Punjabi cause) since the 1980s and has dedicated his entire life as an activist,writer and thinker for the promotion of Punjab and Punjabi rights. Kahut is the one who initially launched the resistance movement against the ill intended demands meant for the criminilsied division of Punjab.Way back in 1990’s Kahut solely stood against malicious propaganda to divide Punjab, when the entire Punjabi intelligentsia had already had given in to the malign calls to divide Punjab.Due to his defiance and unwavering commitment to fighting for Punjabi and Punjabi rights throughout his life, Kahut was successful in raising awareness among Punjabi activists, nationalists, intellectuals, and the younger Punjabi generation, as well as organising them to oppose the illegal and unconstitutional division of Punjab. He worked for long time to promote his Punjabi ideological and nationalist agenda and introduced Punjabs national narrative and nationalist philosophy among the younger Punjabi generation through his books, countless articles, vlogs, by using print, electronic, and social media, and as a result, since the 1990s, the agenda and ideology of the Punjabi Movement, Punjabi nationalism, and the Punjabi nationalist movement have completely and solely revolved around Kahut's ideology and narrative of Punjab, Punjabi, and Punjabiyeat.
- Kahut is a dedicated Punjabi author, writer, novelist, historian, columnist, activist, and vlogger who firmly stands for the rights of the Punjabi language and the Punjab’s solidarity and integrity. Kahut is the author of four works, including the two award-winning novels Deryaburd and Wagha respectively, as well as the collection of short stories Akheerla Punjabi and the book Aao Punjabi Ko Qatl Krein”.
- Beginning in the 1980s and continuing to the present, the Punjabs national narrative, the Punjabi movements national agenda, and its ideology are entirely the intellectual, ideological, national, and revolutionary creations of Nazeer Kahut. No Punjabi other than Kahut stands out in the known history of Punjab as a passionate and ardent advocate for Punjab and Punjabi rights.
- Chaudhry Nazeer Kahut, due to his lifelong struggle for Punjabi and Punjabi causes, his nationalist, intellectual, ideological, and revolutionary thought, being the founder of the Punjabi Language movement as well as his being the first Punjabi to launch the Punjabi Nationalist political organisation known as The Punjabi Lok Seva is also the first Punjabi nationalist to have built Punjab’s national narrative.
- Chaudhry Nazeer Kahut, due to his lifelong struggle for Punjab and Punjabi causes, his nationalist intellectual, ideological, and revolutionary thought, being the founder of the Punjabi Language Movement, as well as being the first Punjabi to launch the Punjabi Nationalist organisation known as Lok Seva is also the first Punjabi nationalist to have developed Punjabs national narrative. Kahut is the only Punjabi nationalist who, while sitting in Karachi-Sindh, fought for Punjabs integrity and solidarity , fiercely opposed its division, and practically launched the resistance movement against Punjabs division way back in the 1990s. Kahut travelled all the way from Karachi and was the first to organise the Punjabi National Conference in Lahore in 2009, aimed at raising awareness among Punjabis about the solidarity and integrity of their fatherland, and asking them to rise against the criminilized division of Punjab.. His slogans against the division of Punjab such as,”Say No To Davison of Punjab ,Punjab di wand Namanzoor, Koie mare ya jeay Punjab di wand manzoor nahi, Maut Manzoor per Punjab di Wand manzoor nahiPunjab Nahi Jageeran Wando” , “Punjab meri dharti maan hey”,“Punjab Pehlaan” ,Punjab zindabad,Jeewey Punjab sada Jeewey” ,Apna merna jeena Punjab lei hey” “Punjab wants its mother tongue back, ,”Why Punjab only -Divide Sindh,KPK and Balochistan too” became the national anthem of21 st century-Punjabi- movement.No matter where he was,whether inSindh, Punjab,Islamabd, England, orCanada, he was adamant about opposing the division of Punjab. He talked passionately, loudly, frequently, and continuously for more than thirty years in favor of the Punjabi language, the Punjabi nation, and against the ill intended, illegal and unconstitutional division of Punjab. Nazeer Kahut is regarded as the founding father of modern Punjabi nationalism and the Punjabi Nationalist Movement.
