Counter-Errorist
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I was born in Kuwait. I studied stateside as well. Now, I'm back here and staying in Pakistan for last 5 years. I plan to continue staying here.Right or wrong, he thinks about Pakistan and I respect that..living abroad does not reduce your sincerity and good will towards your country... QA, Allama, Dr. AQ Khan all lived and studied in the west.. it provided them to think out of the box. Anyone who has read Allama Iqbal's poetry, can easily spot the paradigm shift in his philosophy before and after his stay in UK and Germany. Before going abroad, Iqbal was a nationalist and he wrote a poem like "sare jahan se accha hai hindustan hamara"... but after returning, he said that "in taza khudaon main bara sabse watan hai" ... a big shift... and it is just one example. So living outside the system allows to see the big picture...I connect with MK as his thoughts resonate with mine.
My thoughts used to sync with MK when I was watching my country from a birds-eye view. I, too, like him would have wondered why we're not marching to war over Balakot. But from the inside, the perspective is very different. I live in Karachi, surrounded by garbage, people living in that garbage, people begging for work, begging for food. Even middle-class families are finding it hard to put food on the table for their families.
All this talk of war makes me stupidly angry. People from our midst turned the bulk of our population to slaves and beggars. And from this arose those who took advantage of these people for profit and more. MQM, PPP --- and all these waderas traveling around protected by cops and thugs, openly bribing and bullying their way through wherever they go. This is what we're living in that no one outside gets to see.
Where's the war to fight for these people? It's not patriotic enough, it doesn't make the news. Nobody cares.
Guess who would be the ones suffering through this war --- the ones fighting it and the ones who cannot afford to see it through. All these MK-types will continue arguing over how the fancy war equipment should've been used this way and that. It's a game to them. It's fun.
So please forgive me for getting pissed at warmongers who are not prepared to put themselves or their children to fight it.