Intellectual show offs.

Agree with you Queer, great to hear some considered opinions like yours. Most of the popular religions in the world today are relatively recent compared with the histories of human civilization.

As for the question of not meeting any atheist/agnostic desis. The customs that were exclusively of the religious right in the 70s/80s have now become main stream since the surkha left dissipated. We need a resurrection of the political left in Pakistan to counter this ideological creep towards the right underway for the last 2 decades. Atheism and Agnosticism can be found in the works of Pakistani intellectuals if you read them. Even Persian intellectuals in the 13th-14th century reached philosophical existentialism long before Kierkegaard or Sartre/Camus.