I don't want my kids growing up in Pakistan...

Exodus · August 19, 2011, 3:45am

Re: I don’t want my kids growing up in Pakistan…

Acha chalo I’ll reply but I’m avoiding a tu tu mein mein kind of debate.

Well great about the person getting all those Oscars, but then we do have people of Veena Malik fame who go to the next door neighbors and totally mess up Pakistan’s image. So if we have one star, we have as many little bomshells as well. So let’s not get into comparing stuff like that. Let’s stick to the basics…Basics such as food prices, cost of good schools, extracurricular activities for the children. How does an average family afford all that without being frustrated? It’s not like we’ve lost all connecting with Pakistan; we still have relatives there who complain how hard it is to live a single day when you don’t have electricity, good medical care for the common man, fake medicines, etc etc… I’m talking about day to day stuff. So then why would I knowingly give up my lifestyle here where my children are being raised with stability? People back home have learned to deal with all of that. Most of the time they don’t have options.

And about muslims being treated unfairly here. AGain, personal experience. 20 years of living in this country, not one day have I felt disciminated. Im sure stuff happens but not on a day to day level…yes hate crimes happen, but again they are temporary reactions to some event.

I guess it’s all a perspective.

I repeat, I used my stats as examples, not comparisons. You speak of Veena Malik and previously there was Meera, another respectable member previously spoke of Shaista Wahidi and Sahir Lodhi. Comparatively, don’t we have Britney Spears, Lindsey Lohan, Paris hilton then? Should one be judging their son’s potential wife just because she likes any one of them? I’m not saying this, people have.

Food Prices. They’ve went up considerably. Agreed.
Inflation rate in Pakistan: 13.77% (2011) Was under 5% (2004)
China’s at 6.5% while India 8.61%
U.S. 3.6%
U.K. 4.4%
Canada 3.1%
Japan 0.2%

Cost of good schools. Someone already mentioned that. Seemed reasonable.

Extracurricular activities for children. To name a few. Fine arts, Model making, Naat competitions, Qiraat competitions (the recitation of quran), Quiz competitions, Essay writing, Sports week - Check.

Electricity. The Governments failure. Fine, valid point/criticism.

Yes, I ask the same. Why should a family give up on something that provides them with a stabilized lifestyle in the West?

I’ve managed to mention this more than a few times. “I’m not here to enforce my views or convince anyone to come back, Its bad (Pakistan) yes it is, but not as bad as some people make it out to be”

Paint a picture if you must, but please paint it right.