Ok, i'm first generatation British Pakistani. My parents are from AJK, our family migrated from just the other side of the border in IoK at partition due to the violence. I work in IT, I'm married with kids.
I've been interested in the Pakistan since i was a kid, loved the family trips and have frequented defence forums for nearly 20 years.
Expertise, by profession I'm a Software Tester. I wouldn't claim to have any other expertise. My interest in Defence forums was really just a place to meet fellow Pakistani's and discuss our nation. I've built opinions on defence matters through participation, but i guess my passion is really social issues.
Politically I used to support Pervez Musharraf until he did the NRO. I'm currently a supporter of PTI, because i desperately hope they're better for our nation than PPP and PMLN have been. We shall wait and see I guess.
A part of me seriously considers parliamentary democracy to be a flawed model of governance for our country. It's too factured and focused on winning elections, not nation building.
I don't consider dictatorship an alternative too. It's built around a single point of failure and only as strong as that single point. If your dictator is a genius, you'll do ok, if he's an idiot, you're doomed.
Yeah, i was thinking of joining this forum (took a few years off from internet forums as it was bad for my personality). Wanted a cool/lame forum name. Chose 313 after the martyrs of badr, Ghazi because i am experienced of troll wars against the indians...lol
Unnecessarily so. That's why when I returned i decided not to revive my old ID. I was a new person, that ID was no longer me. I didn't have a breakdown or anything, just clarity of thought.
There was a point where i was just saying bad things out of one upmanship. I began to feel this was counter productive and actually it darkens your soul. Positivity breeds positivity.
It happens. You start working, interact with different people, become more tolerant. As a student you click only with people like you. Got married, at that point a man learns he's always wrong anyway. Then you have children and when they grow up they also tell you how they're right and your not....lol
Also the company you keep helps. 20 years ago forums were full of angry kids mah behno ko gali dehne. Today there are more mature people on forums, diverse ideas, easier to have a productive conversation.