Where did my Pakistan go?

[Safoora]

@Khan15

Yaar Firenze,

Trust me Europe seems to be full of illegal Pakis. I was in Romania, and kept bumping into them!!! You can get Paki food anywhere.

On the main point, I remember visiting Karachi in the 90s, and it was a hell hole. Karachi was much better in the noughties, especially the early Musharaf years. A lot of growth in consumer choice, including tv chanels. Although I must admit, all you get on TV are these dreadfull saas bahu dramas. But TV in the 90s was also really rubish, with endlessly long boring dramas with over weight aunties. I remember when I was in Karachi in 93, and my Nani got satelite. The sheer pleasure of watching the Crystal Maze!!! So it was pretty crap them, actually the 90s saw the large scale emigration of professional Pakis, and still crap. So Pakistan is unchanging.

OMG I was so addicted to that show, and NTM late night movies, Marvi, Anch such good memories-thanks for mentioning this!

Anyways, I don’t have much to add except that things may get worse before they finally get better (I hope not though) but just don’t give up on your home ever. The new generation is not as bad as everyone makes them out to be, they are religious and liberals, optimists and pessimists, patriots and those that are not-like every other generation and every other country. Identify with your country, be good and stay positive, and that’ll help Pakistan’s image a lot more than media.