During my decade-long residency in Dubai, my most close friends were Pakistanis. We studied together at university to checking out girls to playing football to going for road trips. Never have any historical event been a topic of our discussion. Hence, I have mostly had very good experience with these bunch. Point to be noted here is that all of them were born and brought up in the Middle East and are not resident local Pakistanis. That might explain the difference in their much open mentality.
Furthermore, I taught 2 high school brothers while living in Dhaka, whose mother was a Pakistani and father Bangladeshi. They speak fluent Bengali, English and even Urdu. Very well behaved chaps. This also shows the reality is different to what is portrayed on media/online forums in general.
This is a reason why I take most Pakistanis on this forum with a grain a salt, because I have first-hand experience with them outside the virtual world and mostly have been positive. Anyone can act macho behind a keyboard and sprout illiterate nonsense, which most users here do.
. In the heat of debate and argument it often becomes mud slinging in which Bengalis will insult Pakistan and Pakistanis will insult Bangladesh, but usually it's nothing personal. You are from Britain like me so you should know how close our diaspora communities are.
