Our parents telling nonsense about Pakistan

McPendo · May 27, 2016, 5:50pm

Re: Our parents telling nonsense about Pakistan

U19 World Cup QF: Pakistan v India @ Lincoln, Jan 23, 2010

Yes, there are definitely messed up things as well, they are everywhere. Though thank God not every country allows killing of females for ‘honour’. I call that misplaced honour, when people kill females or force them in marriages against their will, all for the sake of family honour, well, that is not true honour in my opinion, it’s misplaced. It’s the kind of honour I don’t have because I won’t force my daughter in a marriage against her wishes. We have a different kind of honour. We have many more problems of course in Pakistan en many of our Pakistani people bring them along when they live in the west. My family did that.

And it isn’t just Pakistani police who in many cases won’t help you unless you’re rich or in a higher position, many hospitals do the same. We went to a doctor in Pakistan, people waiting were left waiting, not us, my Aunty got help immediately, because my family has money and people living in the west who bring along a lot of money. We also have poor people in my big family, some of those told me how difficult their life is. My Mum didn’t like my talking to them and forbade it.

Yes, I heard the various Islamic views, some of those make sense, others don’t. But you will find that in many other countries as well.

We should remember that not everything is horrible in Pakistan, but it is definitely not some perfect society.

The most CRAZIEST thing which my mom asked me to do was one of my aunt was pregnant at the time with a baby girl. She called my mom asking for some money so she can have the gender of the baby girl transformed to a boy. How you ask? Well by the workings of the Peer of course. The peer had asked for 1500 rupees and he was going to “Pray” for her and after the period of about 1 month she’ll have a baby boy. Guess what she have? A GIRL! Seriously who believes in crap like this? My aunt isn’t even Jahil, she’s an educated woman. Still she fell for crap like this. Smh.