Re: Pakistani-American to participate in 'Mrs World 2007' contest
i dont see how she is forcing her ideals on to anyone. The USA doesnt toot a horn of religion when it comes to such matters...yet this country has women in all fields, leaders/beauty pageant winners/artists etc...and a great number of women find pageants to be quite silly.
pakistanis seriously have this "dunya kya kahay gee" mentality as a nation. its no secret that drinking, gambling, heera mandi etc are part of our society. The problem seems to be just that she has made her nationality public.
im not saying whether its right or wrong of her to claim so....but the thing is that its usually better to check our own backyard before claiming such things.
are you going to also scream to the world that the belly-button baring drama actresses do not represent pakistan?
are u going to scream to the world that heera mandi does not represent pakistan? ARYtv, INdus TV?
are u also going to tell them that our (in) famous meeras/reemas/reshams are not representative of pakistan? how about our moderately-enlightened president (who loves rock-band junoon), are u going to tell everyone that the crowd at purplehaze sheesha joint does not represent pakistan? how about the "burgers"? the panchayats that support honor-killings?