My view on Pakistan

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I feel like I feel and that double stated emotion is a negative. My circumstances are as a view of a young Australian Pakistani teenager.

Pakistan. We pride and celebrate our culture boasting military power and so much more. I believe our country is in shambles, our identity is no more then of a terrorist to the world, we don’t have any unity within our own communities and I firmly believe we are one of the most ignorant races on the face of this planet. Yes, with all due respect, there are a number of intellects and faces which rise high among the elite representing the face of Pakistan. However, much of this is tainted by the problems which are inherent in our culture. And yes that’s culture not religion.

I recently went to Pakistan, and I’m sure many of you would have made this examination; no one cares about each others welfare. The saying ‘the richer are getting richer and the poorer are getting poorer’ is one which can be actively demonstrated in Pakistan and is gaining more and more credibility by the minute. And this has a lot to do with the daily crises which are taking place in Pakistan.

Punjabis, and even different casts within Punjabi’s themselves, have too much cultural pride, the North of Pakistan constantly clashing with the Pakistani Army and Bolochistan has similar upheavals.

My disorganized view may be generalist. However, it is us, us Pakistanis, who share a similar generalist, dysfunctional and perhaps an additional ignorant view when examining and dealing with issues with in our communities, both at home and even abroad.

Extremism is on the rise, without trying to find out route causes for such problems we tend to rest our problem solving capacity on blame. Instead of criticizing uneducated extremists for misunderstanding Islam how about the self proclaimed ‘righteous intellects’ of Pakistan infiltrate the Madrases and Mosques, in a democratic way, and reform the values of the uneducated to the true face of Islam?

I’m not going to try to illustrate that my solutions are going to amend Pakistan. Pakistan requires much more than a couple of hundred words for reform. My point here is to illustrate the hypocritical and narrow mindedness of our people. I’m a proud nationalist of Pakistan however I have come to realize that we have nothing more than to blame but ourselves for our problems.

If we as Pakistanis can’t unite, how are we to unite as Muslims?

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If we as Pakistanis can’t unite, how are we to unite as Muslims?

This goes deep even beyond being a Pakistani or Muslim. We're Muslims before we are Pakistani ( some people may argue with that ) Since we have forgotten the basic principles of living in society and the ethics and our duties the problem continues to beefup. We need to go go and look at our basic idealogies and fundamentals individually, that is the only logical way to any good.

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That is true....Of course we are muslims before we are pakistani. I can't believe you are in Pakistan but still you have a very good understanding regarding religion and culture.

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pakistan is beyond repair simple as that

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I beleive that as a human being I have been given the power to think, evaluate and understand. If one tries to evaluate situation and problem with logic and rational thinking ( not pro modern or extremly rational but non biased ) they would reach a conclusion that our basics are forgotten. If we realize this and then start addressing the issue at the very root level and if lot of other people can also do this, this may result in some betterment ofcourse it will take time, not years but perhaps generations.

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The Voice,

I can understand from where you are coming from as the current situation doesn't look good at all and its going to get worse. But lets not be so negative about it, remember there is a power above all powers, there is a planner above all planners. History does prove that in different nations or ages situations were worse even more than this, but they emerged out of it. Whats required is that the nation understands the problem and is ready to address it and few couragous and sincere people who can lead and guide towards this goal. I know it's a distant dream but worth living/fighting/striving for and the game is not lost yet.

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Cant agree with you more mate. I think the probelm is similar through out the world, its just extra embarassing for us right now bc we are in the spotlight. Truly this wolrd has no more tolerance/patience left. Even on a small scale, within families, people are so unwilling to look past differences, or understand why something/someone went wrong, all they do is blame. YOu fear what you dont know, i think each person just needs to try and be more tolerant/understanding of each other, the rest will fall into place by itself.

oh yeah, i also think Imran khan is the last hope for this world until issa alaysalam comes back. Therefore, if altaf hussein or musharraf, so much as to even hurt a hair on imran's head, i will loose all tolerance, and go on a killing spree ;)