An Indian Muslim recounts why his visit to Pakistan was horrifying

[jetray]

LOL at him for visiting pakistan, that too with his family

yeah why take his family to a unknown place, he should have gone alone and if every thing was good he must have taken his family on the next trip.

 

[G0dfather]

had a plan to visit Pakistan in future to see how that part of my country looks like .

 

[Lotus_stalk]

But that does not square with authentic established facts. Are you seriously trying to somehow prove that 30-40% of the ENTIRE Earth's most severely malnourished and extreme poor are equal to 25% of indians?????.......lol.........that means the more indians than non-indian on the earth according to you......lol......lol :

http://blogs.reuters.com/india/2013/04/18/thirty-three-percent-of-worlds-poorest-live-in-india/

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wor...-third-of-worlds-poorest-says-World-Bank.html

nothing to prove just compare average pakistani to average Indian... use statistics...

 

[PAKISTANFOREVER]

nothing to prove just compare average pakistani to average Indian... use statistics...

Because you CAN'T disprove the facts.

 

[Riz]

Another fake blog by one of Indian scum... Many hindus and sikh visits Pakistan in the past but no one complained about it.. Lol anyways we don't want these scums to visit our country, keep living in the country where cows have better life value then so called Indian Muslims

 

[My-Analogous]

I took the risk to visit that country and paid a price.

I not only understand but also relate to the tormenting experience of Asif Nizami and Nazim Nizami — the two representatives from the shrine of Hazrat Nizamuddin Aulia — who had gone to Pakistan on a tour to the Sufi shrines in that country to build bridges between the peoples and nations.

I, with my family, had undergone similarly harrowing circumstances in 2012. It was sheer good luck that we had come back safe and sound.

Nightmare

My honeymoon with Lahore — my dream city, a place of fun and frolic and home to world’s best institutions like Aitchison College and Punjab University, eateries like Salt’n Pepper Village, Food Street and Zaiqa and water parks like Sozo Water Park, Joy Land Park and Starlet shoes — ended in a nightmare.

During my second — and perhaps last visit there — from June 4 to June 13, I found myself, with wife and three children, at the Sarwar Road Police Station, Lahore Cantonment. My experience vindicated that Pakistanis loathe Indian Muslims, terming them variously as enslaved and spies.

My children who were enthusiastic about visiting Lahore — a city about which famed Urdu writer Kashmiri Lal Zakir had said, “Jinne Lahore nai vekhya/wo te jamiya hi naiee (He, who hasn’t seen Lahore/ He isn’t even born)” — are now absolutely Pakistan phobic.

My children were enthusiastic about visiting Lahore.
At about 5pm on June 9, day five of our stay in Lahore, the children wanted a joyride in Joy Land Park. While we were about to enter the park, we were threatened by ISI sleuths in civil dress who had been following us from Wagha.

Without our knowledge, they diverted our threewheeler towards the Sarwar Road Police Station in the Lahore Cantonment. In the police station, we were told that we had entered a "prohibited" area. My wife said we were tourists and there were no signposts in any case.

But our interrogators had sinister designs and began preparing papers to throw us behind the bars. Even if a tourist unknowingly goes to the amusement park, he can land into the hands of ISI rangers. During the grilling, they kept repeating that Pakistani tourists get even worst treatment at the hands of Indian agencies. My consistent denial demeaned me in their eyes.

We were staying at the prestigious 125-year-old Aitchison College from where our passports, visas, etc, were hauled in by the police. I was wondering what threat perception we posed, an enthusiastic bunch of tourists consisting of three school-going children, myself and wife.

The ISI spies had plotted impeccably to snare us — only to be later victimised as Sarabjits and Surjeets for whom neither Pakistan nor India is frankly much concerned. Our arrest documents were written and passports and other papers confiscated. Though it was a very scary and petrifying situation, we were not afraid as we had done nothing wrong.

Apology

Fortunately, college bursar Col Mehboob, a retired army man, spoke to the police assuring them of our bona fides. Even that was not enough and I had to call the editor of The Nation. It still took us five hours to get out of the dreadful and scandalous clutches of ISI officers after a written apology.

Pakistan, unfortunately, is run by ISI agents and the military. They are suspicious of all Indians. The "soft corner" for Pakistan, after this treatment, has absolutely vanished, particularly against the country’s intelligence apparatus.

Bigwigs there are double-faced and can do a U-turn at the drop of a hat, a reason why that country is on the verge of disaster. They even interviewed me at the office of Nawa-e-Waqt, an Urdu daily, to get something against India but I never uttered a word against my “watan” (country).

Aggravated, they moved the ISI sleuths after me more horridly. At the police station, I could not help but wonder: the El Dorado that Quaide-Azam Mohammed Ali Jinnah created as a dreamland of Muslims after thousands of sacrifices, is not even a semblance of the dream he had spun.

Pakistan’s landscape is dominated by terrorism, corruption, inflation, honour killings and sectarianism — to name just a few burning problems.

Relief

On my first day on June 4, I was faked of about 4,000 Pakistani rupees in lieu of Indian money at McLeod Road, and no amount of request or police threat worked. I thought it prudent to come out safe and sound and in one piece from his dingy underground kiosk.

On our return at the airport, I was grilled for three hours by five ISI officers, our bags were turned upside down as were cameras, children’s mobiles and wallets while external hard discs were scanned. Even medicines and shaving boxes were not spared.

I heaved a sigh of relief after crossing Attari, glad to get out of the clutches of ISI megalomaniacs.

Before leaving Pakistan, I was reminded of what my grandfather, Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, told the departing co-religionists for the "promised land" in 1947:


“My dear brothers, today you are leaving our country; did you ever think what will be the outcome of this? If you go away, Muslims in India will become weak. You will be divided into two sects of liberals and fundamentals. Listen to me carefully, a Hindu can differ with your religion but they can’t differ within your qaumiyat (clan), but in Pakistan you will face the difference of the clan as they’ll treat you as chattel.”


Pakistan is a hell for Indian Muslims! I took the risk to visit that country despite these prophetic words and paid a price.

(Courtesy of Mail Today.)
http://www.dailyo.in/politics/pakistan-indian-muslims-isi-nizammudin-saints/story/1/16326.html

I am Urdu speaking and i must say that it is million times batter compares to Modi's India. We are safe and sound and also in Pakistan no minority have bee force to eat as per majority desires nor we have ever curfew of 100 days in any part of Pakistan. What ever you Indian Muslims say about Pakistan does not change your status of being 2nd class in Indian society

 

[Pandora]

We are talking about gujarat, not India kid.


We dont care about poor people.

And apparenty you are the wealthiest brat in India . Seriously get a life moron.

 

[Kaniska]

I took the risk to visit that country and paid a price.

I not only understand but also relate to the tormenting experience of Asif Nizami and Nazim Nizami — the two representatives from the shrine of Hazrat Nizamuddin Aulia — who had gone to Pakistan on a tour to the Sufi shrines in that country to build bridges between the peoples and nations.

I, with my family, had undergone similarly harrowing circumstances in 2012. It was sheer good luck that we had come back safe and sound.

Nightmare

My honeymoon with Lahore — my dream city, a place of fun and frolic and home to world’s best institutions like Aitchison College and Punjab University, eateries like Salt’n Pepper Village, Food Street and Zaiqa and water parks like Sozo Water Park, Joy Land Park and Starlet shoes — ended in a nightmare.

During my second — and perhaps last visit there — from June 4 to June 13, I found myself, with wife and three children, at the Sarwar Road Police Station, Lahore Cantonment. My experience vindicated that Pakistanis loathe Indian Muslims, terming them variously as enslaved and spies.

My children who were enthusiastic about visiting Lahore — a city about which famed Urdu writer Kashmiri Lal Zakir had said, “Jinne Lahore nai vekhya/wo te jamiya hi naiee (He, who hasn’t seen Lahore/ He isn’t even born)” — are now absolutely Pakistan phobic.

My children were enthusiastic about visiting Lahore.
At about 5pm on June 9, day five of our stay in Lahore, the children wanted a joyride in Joy Land Park. While we were about to enter the park, we were threatened by ISI sleuths in civil dress who had been following us from Wagha.

Without our knowledge, they diverted our threewheeler towards the Sarwar Road Police Station in the Lahore Cantonment. In the police station, we were told that we had entered a "prohibited" area. My wife said we were tourists and there were no signposts in any case.

But our interrogators had sinister designs and began preparing papers to throw us behind the bars. Even if a tourist unknowingly goes to the amusement park, he can land into the hands of ISI rangers. During the grilling, they kept repeating that Pakistani tourists get even worst treatment at the hands of Indian agencies. My consistent denial demeaned me in their eyes.

We were staying at the prestigious 125-year-old Aitchison College from where our passports, visas, etc, were hauled in by the police. I was wondering what threat perception we posed, an enthusiastic bunch of tourists consisting of three school-going children, myself and wife.

The ISI spies had plotted impeccably to snare us — only to be later victimised as Sarabjits and Surjeets for whom neither Pakistan nor India is frankly much concerned. Our arrest documents were written and passports and other papers confiscated. Though it was a very scary and petrifying situation, we were not afraid as we had done nothing wrong.

Apology

Fortunately, college bursar Col Mehboob, a retired army man, spoke to the police assuring them of our bona fides. Even that was not enough and I had to call the editor of The Nation. It still took us five hours to get out of the dreadful and scandalous clutches of ISI officers after a written apology.

Pakistan, unfortunately, is run by ISI agents and the military. They are suspicious of all Indians. The "soft corner" for Pakistan, after this treatment, has absolutely vanished, particularly against the country’s intelligence apparatus.

Bigwigs there are double-faced and can do a U-turn at the drop of a hat, a reason why that country is on the verge of disaster. They even interviewed me at the office of Nawa-e-Waqt, an Urdu daily, to get something against India but I never uttered a word against my “watan” (country).

Aggravated, they moved the ISI sleuths after me more horridly. At the police station, I could not help but wonder: the El Dorado that Quaide-Azam Mohammed Ali Jinnah created as a dreamland of Muslims after thousands of sacrifices, is not even a semblance of the dream he had spun.

Pakistan’s landscape is dominated by terrorism, corruption, inflation, honour killings and sectarianism — to name just a few burning problems.

Relief

On my first day on June 4, I was faked of about 4,000 Pakistani rupees in lieu of Indian money at McLeod Road, and no amount of request or police threat worked. I thought it prudent to come out safe and sound and in one piece from his dingy underground kiosk.

On our return at the airport, I was grilled for three hours by five ISI officers, our bags were turned upside down as were cameras, children’s mobiles and wallets while external hard discs were scanned. Even medicines and shaving boxes were not spared.

I heaved a sigh of relief after crossing Attari, glad to get out of the clutches of ISI megalomaniacs.

Before leaving Pakistan, I was reminded of what my grandfather, Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, told the departing co-religionists for the "promised land" in 1947:


“My dear brothers, today you are leaving our country; did you ever think what will be the outcome of this? If you go away, Muslims in India will become weak. You will be divided into two sects of liberals and fundamentals. Listen to me carefully, a Hindu can differ with your religion but they can’t differ within your qaumiyat (clan), but in Pakistan you will face the difference of the clan as they’ll treat you as chattel.”


Pakistan is a hell for Indian Muslims! I took the risk to visit that country despite these prophetic words and paid a price.

(Courtesy of Mail Today.)
http://www.dailyo.in/politics/pakistan-indian-muslims-isi-nizammudin-saints/story/1/16326.html

Unnecessary provocative article...This situation is nothing different, if you go to any rural areas in India too...

 

[Viny]

Errr .. He is a JOURNALIST

They have Journalist visa and they only need a letter and name of the organizers of a event or media house. LOL at your claim of "religious group"



Errrr. ...... BECAUSE HE IS A JOURNALIST your dumb @ss




Journalist visa have wider scope. They only have to report to the police station within the first 150 days.



It is not a large sum by any standard. Its only Rs. 2,500 Indian Rupee. Its probably the money he already had in his purse.

He probably went to a trout for better exchange rates. Its quite common in south Asia.



How is this relevant ?

If you see someone following you continuously in pakistan, you can bet its an ISI agent

Only a retard would need that person to come up and flash his ISI identity card.

Sorry I didnt knew Pakistan gives journalist visa to wife and kids too...

 

[Zibago]

Sorry I didnt knew Pakistan gives journalist visa to wife and kids too...

Ap jaisa golden member itney arsey sey silent mode par kiyon hay

 

[Viny]

Ap jaisa golden member itney arsey sey silent mode par kiyon hay

App jaise kadardan ne kabhi yaad hi nahi kiya

 

[Zibago]

App jaise kadardan ne kabhi yaad hi nahi kiya

Jab ham ney yaad kiya to apney is gali ka rukh karna chor diya

 

[sankranti]

Sorry I didnt knew Pakistan gives journalist visa to wife and kids too...

A journalist is allowed to bring his family on a related visa.

 

[Gibbs]

What a load of horse crap..

 

[PaklovesTurkiye]

What a load of horse crap..

This looked stage because of two things...

1. Pakistan or Pakistanis/locals never treated any Indian harshly/badly despite such fierce hostility.
We gave Indian girl back to India, treated her properly and fed her well.

http://indianexpress.com/article/in...ted-at-7-in-pakistan-reunited-at-23-in-india/

2. RSS Hindu nationalist government, ruling India, right now, really needed some kind of drama to portray Pakistan bad and to diminish positive feelings Indian Muslims/Kashmiris have for Pakistan...Hence, such drama. So, that they can tell local Muslims that the country you chant for or really respect, doesn't even treat your fellow Muslim properly. So, end the soft corner yoy have for Pakistan just being she shares same religion as of you.