While I was going through the letter section of the DAWN newspaper, I found this interesting letter, and wanted to share with my fellow guppies…
I AM a doctor and I’m soon leaving for the quake-hit region. Although I have been hearing people talking about the black marketing of items and the selfishness being shown by a few in the aftermath of the quake, I want to tell the readers of your newspaper that there still are people who are making valuable contributions to the relief effort.
I will mention just two examples. I went to a surgical shop in the Saddar area of Karachi to buy some surgical equipment worth Rs1,500 and when the owner of the shop came to know that I was personally going to the quake-hit region, he gave me goods worth Rs3,500 for free.
In another incident, I went to a shop in Clifton to buy torches and batteries, and told the shopkeeper to give me as much a discount as he could since I was going to take these things to the quake-hit region. You would be surprised to know that the owner of that small shop gave me 11 torches and two full boxes of batteries for free. In both these instances, the shopkeepers were not rich people.
People have also been approaching our team of doctors and giving us medicines worth thousands of rupees to take to the affected region. I have never seen this spirit and this sort of positive attitude by Pakistanis in my entire life. I wish to say out loud: “Proud to be a Pakistani”.
The last time I saw such spirit of unity, love and compassion was during the 1965 war. Let's hope this could be channeled into something positive for the benefit of our nation in the long run.
I AM VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY PROUD TO BE A PAKISTANI (and multiply it by a trillion).. love my countryloadz, there are good and bad people everywhere but after having travelled the world Ihave realized how good our people are in general.
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