When I first went to Pakistan it was a shock to me.. It hadnt sunk in till I witnessed the following incidents
Seeing a guy cycling under a building and a woman dropping all her rubbish on him from the top window
When the train crosses the road the road is closed. Seeing people just blocking the road so when the gate opens no one gets through. Then seeing one person wack another person on the head with a metal bar because he went infront of him
Seeing a car get overtaken by a donkey pulling a cart, and then seeing some guy with chicken legs on a cycle overtaking the donkey
Our car horn stopped working so the driver resorted to bumping into people very lightly just to let them know we were behind them
Seeing entire families travelling on a tiny motor bike, with the wife sitting with her legs over one side … with a baby in her arms, a child in front of her and a child behind her … and sometimes, an additional child at the front of the bike in front of the father.
When freedom is outlawed, only outlaws are free. In pakistan, outlaws are free & law abiding citizens have no rights. If that doesn't make any sense to you, live in pakistan for a year.
I am one of the oldest guys around. Surely if it says Join date Dec 1969, then I did join it in Dec 1969.
Well, jokes apart, people who joined gupshup way back with it first version where registration made necessary are coming with join date of Dec 1969. There are quite a few people with the same join date.
When I first come to pak.org no registration was essential to post in forums, I am talking of 1995.
And i was totally amazed to see a whole family sitting on a donkey cart, with one wheel missing… And people were sitting in the other corner to balance the cart :rotato: get it?
how about getting robbed "drive thru" style in broad daylight on one of the busiest roads in karachi, where the bandit says hurry up he is getting late for iftari.
lol@ rizwan's expreiences..well brother conditions arent tht bad in Pak.........
its just tht ppl are pretty least bothered abt thngs here
liv and let liv :P
hahahah sadaf..wowwwwwwwww
anyhow gun point robberies especially of cell phones is quite common..and dat as welll outside the mousques which mkes it more depressing
hmmm
Quite a passimistic review...These things happen everywhere in the third world not only in Pakistan.Eastern Europe,most of africa, half of Asia is even worst then Pakistan. If we are fortunate enough to stay in the most developed nations in the world, even things happen here.
I am agreed, In Pakistan, we are short of patience, law, every day necessities and might be thousands of things but yet we have something which i bet we could never find anywhere else in this world. It's love..Love among people..
I grew up there and better tell then anyone esle what i missed after moving to a developed nation where people mind their own business .I miss Paki's big time here...big time...
Equake is a very simple example of the love ppl have for other Pakis..Which we missed here after Katrina ..
It's only the system, political conditions, corrupt bureaucra·cy and fudals destined this country to be a third world otherwise could have grown more then most of the nations in this world...
Whatever u say, I have seen the moral descent in Pakistanis. I have lived in Pakistan long enough in different periods of my life to analyse this.
Though I can see that people are helping the quake victoms alot but there are some depressing news too, I dont want to spread rumours but I have heard really distressing news that I wont tell you guys & ya its not about the government. Its about the people doing with people.
Anyway, we do have good people in Pakistan but they are decreasing rapidly.
Actually the thing that still amazes me is traffic back then. Signals only on the most busiest intersections, no left turn signals, no left turn lanes or U-turn lanes, no stop signs, yield, speed limit and the list goes on.
I recall being handed a form at the Islamabad airport that was entirely in urdu
When I told the customs guy I could'nt read or write urdu he just waved at me took the form and through it on the floor stamped my passport and pushed me out of customs LOL
I also recall going to my relatives home and watching in amazement as they just through there bags of garbage over the fence next to our house into the neighborhood next to us
:D seemed interesting to me that all you had to do was throw the garbage out of site
… with a baby in her arms, a child in front of her and a child behind her … and sometimes, an additional child at the front of the bike in front of the father. 
