Original: The province was bordered by the Indian states of Punjab and Jammu and Kashmir to the east , the princely state of Bahawalpur to the south , the provinces of Balochistan and Sindh to the southwest , Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa to the northwest , and Azad Kashmir to the northeast .
Simplified: The official language of West Punjab was Urdu but most of the population spoke Punjabi using the Shahmukhi script .