When i was 6 (after which i moved with my parents abroad) i used to visit my pind(village) with my father. Quite near to the city (about 15 minutes ride) it was fun to swim in the large pool infront of tubewell. However the biggest problem for me was lack of toilet and i would not go to a field to releive myself. So my father wud take me to nearby twin village about a KM away to a cousins house for this purpose.
The kids of reltively effluent houses were taken by their mothers to open place near the house with ‘lota’ while the poorer kids will relieve themselves where ever they liked followed by a “Keesi”, which means dragging their bottom along the ground for bout 1/3rd of a meter that would make a linear track of $hit along the ground.
lol.......yes villages have changed a lot. Not only do they have toilets, they now have electric tubewells, roads, AC, telephones, internet, and almost everything citizens of a city have. You ought to visit it again and you'll be surprised.
When my nana built a "washroom" at our house...my khala tells me that women from far away places would come to our house, with lotas, to use the facilities. Going out to the back fields was just not very safe for women.
There is no "real estate" like there is in the city. Obviously no big buildings etc. but people own their houses and farms. Yes, people own lots of land. Afterall, that's what's there everywhere. And nobody can go claim a field just because he wants to. Law and order is there. Some villages have policemen too. If you go to a village where the chouhdry is in rule and people have to do what he tells them to do, then there may not be so much law and order.
Air is def. clean and food is def. fresh. Quality of life is okay. Depends on what you are looking for. I like it as a visitor but if I were to stay there for good, I wouldn't be able to stay.
Well, once a student from Kot Addu was being ragged at hostel( the usual after new class comes), a coin was dropped on the floor, shoes placed at a distance of a meter from each other as goal posts and he was asked to score a "goal" with his bottom. Amazingly he did it very successfully and i commented "To zaroor bachpan which keesi kerda riya hain" and everyone was on floor laughing.
This student later left practice of medicine, succesfully completed his CSS examination and his now a beaurocrat.
There is no "real estate" like there is in the city. Obviously no big buildings etc. but people own their houses and farms. Yes, people own lots of land. Afterall, that's what's there everywhere. And nobody can go claim a field just because he wants to. Law and order is there. Some villages have policemen too. If you go to a village where the chouhdry is in rule and people have to do what he tells them to do, then there may not be so much law and order.
Air is def. clean and food is def. fresh. Quality of life is okay. Depends on what you are looking for. I like it as a visitor but if I were to stay there for good, I wouldn't be able to stay.
I have seen pictures of some villages, I think you posted them. They looked nice.
There are lot of beautiful places in Pakistan but not many people live there other than govt. workers etc. If amenities (sp?) were nice, I wouldn't mind owning a vaca home there.
The so called backward villagers in some of the pinds are modern now..albeit they are poor, but now due to Satellite tv/radio...etc...they know the latest fashions/styles and make those styles even if with fabric that was dirt cheap. Its amazing, I have seen dirt homes with tv's with dish on them.
My dad’s village doesn’t have a commode (as far as I know) so I really dread having to use the bathroom there because it’s basically just a room with a dirt floor and a little tiled stump that has a hole in it. I don’t think it even flushes. =\ And all I can say is it takes real skill to use a toilet like that.
This past time we did a little lunch reception thing at the village for my sister’s wedding. I had to go really bad. I sat with my legs crossed for about 3 hours until my mom finally asked my mamoe to drive me to a restaurant. (closest one that look decent enough was a 30 min. drive) And then when I got back all my khalas started blabbing about how “these Amreekan bachay are so pampered.” ugggh it made me so mad
@ keesi…
ugggh it made me so mad