Perhaps I’m not as learned as a lot of people on this forum. Maybe I’m not as intelligent. Maybe I’m just a paindu.
But if I’ve learned anything on my limited time on earth, it’s the nature of Pakistanis. I think genetically the majority of us are naturally predisposed to psychopathy and narcissism. We are egotistical to the point that it is physically sickening. No Pakistani can ever be wrong and if provided evidence we rather kill the person in front of us instead of admitting it.
When you show a Pakistani kindness, he/she sees it as sign of weakness and takes full advantage(classic characteristic of psychopaths).
The armed forces are no different from us. They are also Pakistani. We’ve showed them kindness to the point of laddiyan karni. Sar pe bataa ke rakha huwa he inko. And what happened? They saw it as a sign of weakness and took advantage.
Kuttay ki doom kahbi seedhi ne hoti, seedhi karni parti he.
Just look at our cricket players. They win one match and we start praising them. Then these mattarchors start eating burgers and go clubbing and lose the next one. Then we have to start giving them ma bhen gaalis so they can start doing what they’re supposed to again.
Whether it’s the army, cricket team, judiciary, pulas, medical doctors or whatever the case, in saab ko keench ke rakhna parta he, otherwise they see it as a weakness and start to take advantage.
Nasal hi jo aisi he.
I’m sure many people won’t agree with me, but that’s how I feel.
You aren’t wrong - even many Pakistanis abroad display the same characteristics unless they came in really young so they adopted the model of their new nation.
If anything, this goes beyond just Pakistan and the very idea Dr. Iqbal warned against: bragging and living in the achievements of those before you or unrelated to you.
Even today Pakistanis are lost in fantasies of muslim achievements or achievements in 65 or that of people in the past. They consider those validation for their own capabilities and therefore think they are god’s gift to earth.
In reality, Pakistanis are in general below average(tell me how many will you hire direct from Pakistan if given the chance to run something like Twitter?) only because they consider themselves above average.
The Pakistani military IS NOT THE BEST in the world and hardly comes out in the most professional ones either depending upon the leadership quality. Its luck of survival against threats purely comes down the incompetence of the threat themselves (India) or gracious saviors abroad.
But the military to your point comes from Pakistanis - and because Pakistanis are themselves so full of themselves that they take the slightest praise to think of themselves as anaouzubillah the next Rasool and then consider the rest Achoots.
The result is what you see today - if anything, the very idea of a Pakistani is so far from the idea of what muslim should be that its more about the cultural(and not the good type) mashup of the natives and immigrants trying to fit into a box that isn’t big enough.
My wife is Arain and likely as your ancestors were came from migrants from what is now Indian punjab - my father in law narrates regarding his father and grandfather that while they did move willingly they weren’t happy about it. Not because of the land because the reputation of the west was that of thieves and barren land. A 2nd generation Faisalabadi from Faridkot told me the same thing - They considered their ancestral land better cultured and of “good families” than what was in Pakistan.
That doesn’t tell me that the people truly native to Pakistan were bad - but that the tribal ego that divided India before partition and the idea that “my family tree” is the best and everything else is trash still haunts Pakistan to this day and is the root cause of self aggrandizement and ethnic/racial strife among other things.
So if a people collectively are still not over “Syed, Mirza or Afghan” and continue to live in that fantasy and consider everyone else worthless even if they themselves are totally incompetent and incapable- what exactly can they hope to achieve??
Pakistan is held together by a few hundred to few thousand individuals throughout its history and that is the truth. The rest of the population is actively working to tear MA Jinnah’s … sorry, whatever is left of his sacrifice down