tragedies/hardships around the world

Enigmatic · September 14, 2011, 4:04pm

Re: 10 years ago today

Because when you have a big mess up at your own home & country you dont go around helping others. Its same as .. if a family member was sick and a neighbour is sick, you definitely attend to your family member first.

So when the 2005 Earthquake took place, literally more than a million Pakistanis from the entire country went as volunteers to the North to help people. If you’re in Pakistan, you would definitely know many people in your circle who did go all the way up specially those who were doctors & celebrities to help others. My own mamoon took trucks full of groceries and items 4 times all the way after traveling 24 hours to give to some random strangers who were in pain.

Same way when the floods took place last year, so much of aid was collected and people personally went to Sindh and areas to give to people in need.

The difference is: These acts are not highlighted, neither does our media cover it, neither do our people appreciate it enough other wise lots of people around us help others a lot.

Let alone the floods & earth quakes, the amount of charity we give our maids & those under privileged living near us is in not comparable to the gora class. Our religion teaches us about zakat, fitrana, sadqa and all such forms of helping others. We are just not proud of and we as a whole don’t flaunt about of what we have or what we do, neither does our media give any attention!

Completely agree with Daffy. Yesterday I switched on the tv and it was full of reports against the doctors in Govt hospitals. It only covered the negative aspects of hospitals and how people were waiting for reports and nobody would attend to them.
I then later talked to my dad about the whole situation. He said you have no clue how hard everybody is working here. He himself came back from the hospital around midnight and said everybody was around especially junior doctors who volunteered to stay in the emergency dengue wards to treat and monitor those patients. And the picture the media was showing was like the complete opposite just to trigger ripples of despondency around.