Re: internet relationships..
When I was younger I lived in a predominantly Gora area and there wasn’t many ‘apne’ people at my school except a handful of Gujjis and Bengalis who I didn’t speak to often and didn’t consider them ‘apne’ so I was pretty desperate for some fellow Pakis to talk to, I was really shy when younger but every time I saw a Pakistani who could speak Urdu or just about barely understand it I couldn’t shut my mouth… I was gagging for Pakis to be friends with so I’d search chat rooms and made like 50 odd contacts just on the Internet, knew them all by name and we were really close but then I moved near our relatives with abundance of Pakis and now I’m just content with the ‘apne’ I meet in real life.