Maybe what I am about to say is common knowledge in Pakistan, but my friend who experienced it was totally shocked, and I was completely speechless throughout much of the conversation.
A few days ago my friend, a doctor, came back from his trip to Pakistan. He is Kashmiri but he lived in Pakistan a few years when he was younger, and moved to states early on.
So this year he took a trip to areas from Rawalpindi to Peshawar. He also visited places like Attock and military areas close to there.
I asked him about his trip and one of the first things he said was that the trip left him in utter disbelief, and that he felt like he was in a coma/numb for a few days due to what he saw and heard in Pakistan. Keep in mind that my friend is in his thirties.
Anyway, so I asked why that was and this is some of what he told me.
First he started off by asking me if I heard about the tape made at a net café in Pakistan. I told him I had. He said that some of the girls in the tape were from high-profile families and that atleast 4 of them committed suicide due to the shame.
Then he told me about how he would visit net café’s and even peoples homes, and he said that a majority of the people he saw, were using it for porn. I told him that I don’t believe that, and he said it was absolutely true.
So then he mentioned that a friend of his took him to this house that had many young girls in it. The girls were around 14/15 years old, and were supposed to be in school. Instead, they would be picked up from school when their parents dropped them, and taken to this house. From there, men would come and you know the rest. Then they would be dropped off just before school finished. This isn’t it. He said the person in charge of the schools participated in these acts by receiving revenue and he said this wasn’t only happening in one school. He also said that these girls were not just the poor girls.
Then he said that some mothers would take their daughters to some location and sort of rent a room, and pimp their daughters. By this time my jaw was on the floor and all I could say was that what he was saying simply wasn’t true. He kept insisting that it was and that he saw this with his own eyes, which resulted in him numbing out.
He also said that the things going on at or near the military bases were very disturbing. Especially with girls from families that came from abroad.
So then he tells me that there is a new trend going on in Pakistan. I asked him what this trend was, and I was simply horrified at the response. Wife-swapping. By this time I called him a liar, and he said no, it has been going on for a while now, and it’s the new-age thing to do. I said that maybe very few people were participating in this. Then he named a major city in Pakistan and said it was happening there, which is where he saw ads about it. He said people are trying to outdo themselves in ways to have fun and be different/dangerous. By this time I was getting delirious so he changed the topic.
Then he started telling me about the state of the medical workers and doctors in the cities he visited. He particularly mentioned one large city (I don’t want to name names). Because he is a doctor, and people knew he was coming to town, people had lined up to see him. From friends, to relatives, to distant relatives, etc. He said out of 300 people he saw, not a single one had the correct prescription for what was ailing them. Not a single one!!! Then he said that many of the drugs given, were not even proper drugs. If there were three categories of drugs, these drugs would be in category 4, the non-existent category. This made him very angry and he visited the local hospital that a relative of his was staying in. He spoke to one of the chief people there and asked about his relative. The person told him the hospital couldn’t conduct the proper tests due to financial issues and other things. Anyway, thankfully, his relative was fine after my friend intervened and had whatever tests done.
Then he told me that a new thing going on there is that people who work in medical offices are taking off and opening their own practices. Giving out drugs they have no idea about, and essentially, killing people due to it. He said the doctors and hospitals are killing people due to their lack of knowledge, lack of equipment, lack of regulations, etc.
I don’t know how exaggerated these claims were, but he said he wasn’t lying about anything, and that he was still in a state of shock even after having coming back from Pakistan.
I just wanted to know if this is really going on there? I mean you hear about poor countries and things but hearing it from someone who just came back from one was just shocking. I am in disbelief, and perhaps I am naïve, but I just cant believe this is what has happened there. What has happened with the morality of youth these days?
He said it was ironic that people are sending their kids to Pakistan to be safer, and yet that is going on there.
Any comments?
