Agree with NJ.
Shaz, I love Pakistan but living there is a completely different thing. My Nana Aba (may he go to Jannat), a 74 old man, was murdered very violently in an attempted kidnap just a couple of months ago by some scum. So many of our family friends have stories of their loved ones either being killed or their lives made hell by crime in Pakistan.
I don't want to live in Pakistan, not because I don't love it, but because I don't want myself or my future familys' lives put at unneccasry risk.
i m a born pakistani...but moved to USA when i was 13. My father worked for the pakistani gov't as an engineer (for the electricity company)...had an accident AT work, passed away within a week frm that. n do u knw who the pakistani gov't offered us (family of four young kids n a widow) 1200 rps per month...yes thats it. When my mother ask for a job in the same department the gov't said she was too old to start, n said my eldest brother was too young to work (he was 17 at the time). Thank god for my nani n mamu who were here is the US, and who supported us for the two years it took us to move to US (in these two years, the paper work of my Dads pension and other stuff wasn't done--so we weren't even getting the 1200rps).
now if some one asked me if i m a proud pakistani...well i say NO...pakistan has given my family nothing. I cannt even image how my mother would have supported our education with those 1200. I work hard here in the US...but i knw if one day i die...my family wont be without money.
Yes my family moved here for money becuase the pakistani gov't offered us none.
I am shocked to read how many people have lost loved ones to crime in pakistan,
But am not really suprised at the little help the pakistani goverment gives to the families tht have lost loved ones, Rabia I am very sorry to hear about ur Father (May Allah grant him jannat.... Ameen) im sure it must of been very hard for u an ur family. you mentioned u had ur Nani and mamu's help, so I guess u was lucky then some...:)