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

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

@Mirch

My sister’s house has been robbed two times on gun point , I was robbed on gun point , my nieces and nephews were robbed on gun point , my friends have been robbed on gun point. My friend was was told to pay millions of rupees otherwise his daughters will be abducted .
What kind of safety is guaranteed for my family ?
In a country where common people can hang two young men for suspicion of robbery without any trial , in a country where people dig graves and eat dead bodies, in a country where a guy could kill 100 kids and then confess for doing so what good can I expect for my family.

In a country where 10 to 35 people are being killed because they speak a different language what is hope for my family ?

Provide me some safety , security and metal peace I will move back and would not even care if the mosquitoes have so strong wings that high speed fan cannot deter them from stinging you.

I will not care if I will have 16 hours of load shedding. I will not care to travel in a bus which will be so over loaded that you cannot even breath and someone would like to smoke a cigarette.

I will not care if sewage system is so bad that I will have to go on a cockroach killing spree in my own kitchen every two weeks.

I will not care if I my kids get mauled by army of stray dogs in my own street and neighborhood.

I will not care if I will have to stand in a long line to pay my electricity bill which I did not use.

I will not care if an army of beggars will attack my car on each traffic signal.

I am ready to make all those compromises but when it comes to safety and security of my kids I cannot make any compromise.

I don’t know about you but after reading all this i can put money on this taht you are from Karachi …

Coming back to the topic.

I haven’t thought much about these things .. since i am not there yet. but i have seen my cousins here and my friends younger brother and sisters. They are in standard 10, 9, 6, 4 .. and believe me after looking at them .. I would never want my kids to study in these schools (i am being specific about Canada). Study system sucks here. till 8 standard no real education and then all of the sudden they are bombarded with lots of things and most of the time they aren’t even capable of handling it because of the 8 years they spent playing games etc.

I came here for my masters degree and thanks to my University/college/school which made me enough competent that throughout my masters, I din have to read a single word for my courses. Though i have to work for my Project/assignemts/thesis etc .. but courses here were so simple that for me they were like piece of cake.

the other day i was teaching some core concepts of programming to one of my nephew and i asked him if you know “binary” system. He is in class 8 or 9 .. and he said no .. which was surprise to me.

It might not be a cocern for people who have kids .. but for me .. a tough education is a must.

P.S:
During my masters here i was Proctoring an exam of programming for undergrad term 1 .. there were like 300 students in the hall and MOST of them din even know which months have 30 days and which have 31 .. and we are taught how to find days in a month on our knuckles.