Re: Sad but true…
really? are you serious…if a brit who is born and raised in UK cannot read english and who feels degraded in communicating via english wants to be a mama chacha of UK…do you have any idea how will be he treated in UK? what will be the depth of his/her connection with the masses when he cannot even read his own language despite the fact he lived there? he cannot read his mainstream press, he has never read his own history/literature… and the list simply goes on and on…and you are saying so what? really muzna?
but before we go any further, let me be clear….i am talkin abt those folks who have lived first 15/20 years of their lives in pakistan but they can’t read urdu…and top of that they look down upon urdu, urdu literature and everything related to it…i mean how messed up is that? I went to a business school in the US and we had students from 80 countries and i had friends from south america, south asia, china, south east asia, europe, africa..i dont remember any one who couldn’t read in his native lingo or had problem communicating in his native language …pakistani and indian students were the only one who used to speak in English to each other…idiots!
so yes if someone has lived in Lahore for 20 years and he/she cannot read urdu, well he/she better be careful before he/she opens his mouth on Pakistani issues…coz what exactly he knows abt this country and masses/