I want to make Pakistan a better place. Idealistic I know but it is what it is.
Expats sitting abroad holding on to regressive views amd wishing the same for Pakistan piss me off.
Freedom to criticise is good. It's what makes the West the best. But holding Crusade-ish views and harboring resentment against the Western value system (judging scantily clad women, hating gays, keeping away from non muslims etc) is not okay. Many expat Pakistanis are plagued with this disease.
I want to address 2 different issues.
Firstly...
You seem like a very reasonable person in most of your posts, but your projecting your biases onto other people. Much like Indus who you had a disagreement with about his alt-race views.
The post you quoted suggested nothing of what your accusing overseas Pakistanis of. There is no expression of hatred towards America and even if there was - so what? You can hate what a country is doing, aspects of the country, what it has become without hating people.
Maybe he wants his second home to not be a bully on the international stage? Maybe he hates American imperialism and foreign policy?
If he was the descendant of English immigrants who had come over, wiped out the natives, got rich off slavery and today had turned into a woke liberal you'd be completely fine with him describing America negatively.
Second...
What's it got to do with me? Well I'm sick of people who seemingly have a good life in Pakistan, have had great opportunities are from a comfortable background (a lot of assumptions I know) shitting on the opinions of expat Pakistanis.
When it suits you guys call us out for leaving, when it suits your calling us out as some sort off oddball outcast leaches, the list goes on.
The fact is many of us who are abroad are not the ones who initially migrated. It was our parents and they did so because of extreme poverty. People like me who live in the west have a whole range of political opinions, we have different religions values different social and economic status - we're not a homogeneous bloc.
There are plenty who would like to migrate back to Pakistan, not because we don't like where we are, but we love where we want to go. The only thing that holds us back is the condition of Pakistan. To live the comfortable lifestyle a middle class person in the west does, you have to be a rich person in Pakistan. Not all of us have the wealth or skill set to be that.
That is why, we also, just like you, want to see Pakistan improve.
Sorry for the long rant.
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Back to the topic at hand. I like what Moeed said, it reflects the PMs opinions and those of many on this forum.
We need a relationship found on respect not the carrot/stick BS. Also we need to lose our national obsession with the F-16. The major focus on a relationship with the US should be as an investor and an export market.