Introduction - Aaron Akhtar

[Aaron Akhtar]

Assalam u Alaikum,
1) Tell your interests?
Software Development, I am a 16 year old Software Developer, I want to learn more about my country and hopefully one day serve it.

2) How did you find us?
Google, while researching about the Pakistani Army.

3) What interests you here?
Mainly learning more about the Pakistani Army and Government.

4) What is your profession?
Software Development / Web Development

5) Your nationality and/or origin?
British Pakistani

6) City you are posting from?
UK, London.

 

[jamahir]

I want to learn more about my country and hopefully one day serve it.

Hi, if you are not keen on serving in British government agencies ( even the military ), why don't you join some local Progressive movement like the Communist Party of Great Britain ??

And welcome to PDF.

 

[Aaron Akhtar]

Hi, if you are not keen on serving in British government agencies ( even the military ), why don't you join some local Progressive movement like the Communist Party of Great Britain ??

And welcome to PDF.

This country is a complete joke, its politics are a joke, they hire low class people to join their military and fight wars they know nothing about, I would rather not serve a country like this one.

 

[M.Bison]

Wa aley kum salaam, welcome brother. You are 16 years old mashallah, and a software developer? are you going to school for that or self-trained?

 

[PakFactor]

This country is a complete joke, its politics are a joke, they hire low class people to join their military and fight wars they know nothing about, I would rather not serve a country like this one.

Salaam,

Welcome to the Forum and we hope you learn a lot as well - and I'm impressed 16 years old and software development you going to school for it or self thought?

 

[TruthSeeker]

Welcome!!

 

[Aaron Akhtar]

Salaam,

Welcome to the Forum and we hope you learn a lot as well - and I'm impressed 16 years old and software development you going to school for it or self thought?

Wa aley kum salaam, welcome brother. You are 16 years old mashallah, and a software developer? are you going to school for that or self-trained?

I am self taught, I was kicked out of school when I was 13, I've been learning this field myself since then and I have prospered, thanks for asking <3

 

[M.Bison]

I am self taught, I was kicked out of school when I was 13, I've been learning this field myself since then and I have prospered, thanks for asking <3

That's great man, keep up the good work.

 

[Longhorn]

This country is a complete joke, its politics are a joke, they hire low class people to join their military and fight wars they know nothing about, I would rather not serve a country like this one.

Welcome.
You don't know a lot about Pakistan or politics as it is practised in most of the developing world.
If you did, you would know that British politics, despite all it's faults, is a model of good governance and democracy.
If you think British politics are a joke, you've never studied Pakistani politics.
A little bit of advice to someone who is very young and setting out in life:
The best way to serve your people is to immerse yourself in life in Britain and become a part of the fabric of that country so that you may hopefully be in a position to influence Britain to become sympathetic to Pakistan, Pakistanis, and Muslims in general.
You cannot do this by acting like an alien and a fifth columnist. It is a mistake we Pakistanis on the whole generally make repeatedly, resulting in us failing to make headway in the societies we, or our parents, have chosen to become a part of.
Just look around you at the Jewish people as an example and lately the Hindus. Wherever they choose to live, they become a part of the politics, arts, law, business and general civic life of that country, resulting in them holding sway over governments to the benefit of their home countries and to the detriment of their adversaries.
Britain is your country of birth. It is where you have been brought up and it is the environment you know and where you feel the most comfortable. It is the country that has nurtured you, educated you and it will give you life chances most Pakistanis can only dream of. Don't be ungrateful to it, respect it, and respect it's people.
You are as British as you are Pakistani now, if not moreso, even though you might not think or feel it. Both identities deserve their appropriate and proper place and equal respect.
Pakistan is the land of your forefathers and it is natural that you would feel nostalgia, affinity and attraction to it but it is not your natural home or environment.
The culture shock would make your head spin.
It is another world.

 

[Sabretooth]

Welcome to the forum.

I am self-taught, I was kicked out of school when I was 13, I've been learning this field myself since then and I have prospered, thanks for asking <3

I am curious to know how does that work if you don't mind my asking.

 

[Aaron Akhtar]

Welcome to the forum.



I am curious to know how does that work if you don't mind my asking.

One of my fellow students tried to snatch my bag from me so I stabbed him with a compass in his arm [compass ->

]
The students mum told the school, they took me to court, the court actually was on my flavor as there was no evidence of me doing it and it was basically self-defence.
The school paid £5000 to the court to actually finalize the expulsion.

I don't mind if you want to ask it got me where I am today =)

 

[Sabretooth]

One of my fellow students tried to snatch my bag from me so I stabbed him with a compass in his arm [compass ->

]
The students mum told the school, they took me to court, the court actually was on my favor as there was no evidence of me doing it and it was basically self-defence.
The school paid £5000 to the court to actually finalize the expulsion.

I don't mind if you want to ask it got me where I am today =)

Seems it was destined to happen and if you feel that you are in a good place now because of that incident then good for you.

 

[Nyarlathotep]

One of my fellow students tried to snatch my bag from me so I stabbed him with a compass in his arm [compass ->

]
The students mum told the school, they took me to court, the court actually was on my flavor as there was no evidence of me doing it and it was basically self-defence.
The school paid £5000 to the court to actually finalize the expulsion.

I don't mind if you want to ask it got me where I am today =)

State schools in the UK are shit, that why I’m glad I’m not in one. A similar incident happened with my cousin but he’s lucky he wasn’t expelled.

 

[doorstar]

State schools in the UK are shit, that why I’m glad I’m not in one. A similar incident happened with my cousin but he’s lucky he wasn’t expelled.

project much? I can list a number of top doctors, solicitors, barristers, top soldiers and many many other successful people who came up from state school system. it all depends on your family background (success/failure depends on your family ethics, whether you are aiming to be a dole scrounger or a taxpayer)

State schools in the UK are shit, that why I’m glad I’m not in one. A similar incident happened with my cousin but he’s lucky he wasn’t expelled.

contradict yourself much? lucky to be not expelled from a shit school system? he could have become another Bill Gates like the OP has, had he been expelled

 

[Nyarlathotep]

project much? I can list a number of top doctors, solicitors, barristers, top soldiers and many many other successful people who came up from state school system. it all depends on your family background (success/failure depends on your family ethics, whether you are aiming to be a dole scrounger or a taxpayer)

contradict yourself much? lucky to be not expelled from a shit school system? he could have become another Bill Gates like the OP has, had he been expelled

I am afraid your thinking is incorrect. You see it is all about proportion. Of course there are many successful people who went to state schools, but they themselves are only a small minority. Like you said it is about the family background. They obviously pushed themselves while the schools didn’t.

My cousin could have become another Bill Gates, that is a truth. But how many out of those expelled from schools end up like a Bill Gates? And how many don’t?