Re: Pakistans -should they live in Pakistan or in the West?
PD, I am yet to see any American/British integrating into south America or even in Greece or some other parts of the world. There are lots of British living in their isolated colonies in Greece, the same is the case for Americans in Manila or in Dubai. Sarkar, integration is a two way street, and there are lot of hypocrites driving in both directions.
But comming back to the core issue, almost all the sociologist agree that there are three basic reasons for migration, which are:
Firstly, that every living being in this world would like to live in a place were his life and the life of his children/sibling is protected or the sense of security or peace is available, that’s the first requirement.
Secondly, where he is not treated unjustly, where someone in power would not take his assets or his right, in other word the sense of Justice.
And lastly the place where he can prosper, develop or have employment.
So wherever you have a combination of these three conditions people would love to live there, and people would migrate to these places. So now if you look at Pakistan, you will find that Pakistan still have a long way to go for just establishing its Judicial Infrastructure. Once that is in place, we might look at provision of justice to ordinary people, until then the migration trends would not change.
Its not a bad idea that the Pakistani diaspora should work for the betterment of Pakistan. I trust they are doing their best in their limited way, but the administration should start thinking on these lines as well, not only for the Pakistanis in the west but for the Pakistanis in Pakistan.