In Pakistan we have inferiority complex. They thing that by wearing western cloths, adopting there life style and by rejecting own dresses and own traditions, they will become a great Nation like USA, UK and other developed countries. Now the style in Pakistan is to hate all local things, make fun of it ( even language, dress, ideas, traditions, food, way to cooking, way to talking etc) and ideas and love all western things without any logic. May Allah Bless us and give us Hidayat Ameen!
You are aping Afghan Buddhists by wearing Shalwar Kamiz and you are aping Persian Zoroastrians by wearing Sherwani, you have an inferiority complex, may Allah give you Hidayat.
I sound retarded right? So do you when you insist a certain ethnicity should only wear a certain type of dress.
Shalwar Kamiz was invented by Afghan Buddhists and Sherwani by Persian Zoroastrians so Pakistanis should invent their own dress, calling these dresses our national dresses is copying someone else.
Wesay if you want Hidayat you shouldn't be in Shor Sharaba or watching Kanjar-Mirasis on TV anyway.
If the Westerners invented pant-shirt, Buddhists invented Shalwar-Kamiz, Zoroastrians invented Sherwani.
Just because Quaid-e-Azam Baba tried creating an artificial identity for us by picking a "national" dress, flower, chaddi etc. doesn't mean we have to stick to these things forever and ever.
Pakistani culture and society will change just like any other nation. Nothing stays the same!!
We've always adopted influences from other cultures and we always will just like any other nationality, there's nothing to be ashamed of in that.
Maybe these people just don't like Shalwar Kameez.
Are they forcing you to wear pant shirt? No! So you have absoloutley no right to dictate what someone else can or cannot wear.
I hate Shalwar Kamiz too and guess what? I live in a Pakistani village (Gaaon/Pindd/Goth), I'm a Painddu like the majority of this country's population but I belive in positive change. We cook foods from Italy, Greece, Arabia, China, Pashtunkhwa, Punjab in our house, nice things from all over the world make our lives more interesting.
Why are some Pakistanis so narrow minded? Why do you want to be different and isolated from the rest of the world?
Pant-shirt is not just Western clothes, it's international.
I wear jeans because I think they look cool not because I have an inferiority complex, I'm content being Paki, I don't want to be White or anything.
I don't try to be White, Gorey to bahot badsoorat hotey hain, ek dam pheekay!! Un pe to kuch bhi acha nahi lagta, pant-shirt to sirf ham tall, dark, handsome Pakistaniyon be sexy lagta hai, other than us Pakistanis there's only Latinos, Arabs and Central Asians who are goodlooking.
I think Shalwar Kamiz looks horrible on men, men should NOT wear dresses.
Women look pretty in modern Shalwar Kamiz though.
Wear any dress that is not nanga-punga, Kanjar-Mirasis (actors) however will wear anything, unn ka koi Deen Dharam nahi hota.
The only thing we should try and preserve is our religion and our local languages (which are suffering because an Indian language called Urdu is being enforced on us).