Its not an issue about turning our backs on the country. Some of us will never do that. There are others in Pakistan who believe everything in the West is what life should be like. The sad fact is that they represent only what 0.00001% of Pakistan population. They are by and large a very very very minuscule minority.
Those people aren’t really Pakistani. They are American/British/Canadian of Pakistani origin. Hell in Afghanistan people know right off the bat that I am Pakistani. Might be the fact that I speak to all the Afghans in Urdu or Pashto. But that is besides the point.
Pakistani is not an ethnicity. It is a nationality. If you were born to Pakistani parents does not make you Pakistani. Summer vacations in Pakistan every 2 or 3 years does not make you Pakistan.
The fact that your parents decided to move you to Pakistan after Sept 11th and you complain about everything Pakistan does not make you Pakistani.
The only thing that makes you Pakistani is the love you feel for the motherland. The desire to help, the desire to make things better. The ability to see you know what the **** has hit the fan but it will get better.
Half the posters in this thread say they are Pakistani but they aren’t. That is the truth.
If you are a Pakistani people know it and its not an issue of if or but.
I mean nobody would ever confuse Firenze for a Pakistani. Not even an red-neck American. He was jumping with joy with the idea that Pakistan maybe a failed state.
Others like myself, CP, hanibal and a few others were adamant we would survive and get out of it. That is being Pakistani. Delusional hope that we will always survive. If you are a Pakistani cricket fan you know exactly what it means to be a Pakistani.
