MIGRATION FROM ONE PLACE TO ANOTHER IS AN OLD PHENOMENON.
In a class of grade 5, a student did something wrong and his classmate remarked him as a, “bad boy". The teacher called the child to her and politely said, "he is not a 'bad boy' but, the action he did was wrong”.
As humans, God created everyone equally innocent, intelligent and free from all transgressions and than it was the atmosphere, company, environment and brought up values that made us good or bad. I believe, no human on this planet is evil unless he is sick and fanatic otherwise, there is always a room in someone’s life of improvement and correction. If we follow the rule of ‘correction’ instead of ‘elimination’, most of the vices would disappear from our planet.
Several months back, when I wrote a complaint about postal department in Pakistan, I never meant that the entire postal department is corrupt and dishonest or every institution in Pakistan falls in the same category and I did not say either that Canada Post, American or European society is comprised of angels.
LET US TALK A BIT ABOUT EXPATRIAT PAKISTANIS AND DUAL NATIONALITY!
If you flip the pages of history or go back to stone age or even further back to millions of year ago, you will find that human migration from one place to another and from one land to another has been a regular feature and natural phenomenon on the planet, on the land and in the oceans. Even today, we come across such news that frozen bodies of hundreds and thousands of years old humans were found in Canada, Antarctica and other parts of the world where scientists discover that those bodies were hundreds of years old. People in the ancient times would travel from one place to another (at that time, there were no boundaries of countries) hunting animals ( in the old age, animal skin was the main source of trade between communities), fur trades, food and shelters. Even fish travel hundreds of miles every year from one water to the other.
With the same token, if you see the history of Moen Jo Daro, Taxila and Arians, you will find that those people came from different parts of the world to South Asia.
Our prophet Muhammad (SAS) also migrated from Mecca to Medina in the search of peace and shelter.
There are various reasons of human migration today from one country to another; business, education, environmental change, finding bread and butter, political reasons, war, life safety etcetera. Even animals and birds migrate from one continent to another in the search of water and food. You will find ducks of Australia and Russia in the lakes of Sanghar, Thatta and Nawabshah in Pakistan.
As human mind developed and people started living under boundaries of countries, they marked day and night in 24 hours, 7 days of the week and 12 months of the year to discipline themselves; same way, countries designed rules of visa, passport and immigration for various kinds of visitors to visit their countries to differentiate various statuses.
Immigration or Dual Nationality are not something JINN or BHOOT (giants & ghosts) but those are the rules countries have designed to execute certain benefits to the people who enter from one country to the other, just to facilitate them in case they stay there for certain period of time.
If you read Quran, God says addressing human beings, “I have created lands, oceans, mountains, Sun and Moon for you, go and explore them” . There is no mention in Quran of Pakistan, America, Japan, Columbia, Sri-Lanka and Bangladesh. It is you and me, who demarcated frontiers of these countries for the political and social reasons. The same way as we live in cities, towns Mohallas and our own built houses. Then these houses are further divided into rooms to accommodate the habitants of the families. Being Pakistani, Muslims and as a family why don't we just live in open areas without frontiers as this is our own country?
Whatever, I explained above, are just various ways to self-discipline us on individual, group, collective and country basis. So nothing is wrong in dual nationality, visiting or living other than Pakistan.
There are people from Sindh who work in Punjab and people from Punjab who work in Sindh and thus they cannot see their families for months and sometimes only on Eid Baqraeed. But there are people who work in Dubai and Saudi Arabia and see their families twice in a year. So expatriates are better than our own countrymen!
These Forums should be meant for education, training, fostering brotherhood, development of human behavior and unity instead of wasting of time in useless debates or just for the sake of posting messages on the Forum pages to see your names. This should not be a loitering place and should be used for healthy discussions
Everybody take care and stay away from all troubles.
SHAFIQ KHAN
CANADA
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