misconceptions about Pakistan

I think that people have got to be more aware of whats going on around them!!!!!! Everyone outside pakistan still thinks that we're an underdeveloped country and technology hasn't yet arrived in Pakistan!! Went to US and they were surprised to see i had a decent phone-one of them even asked whether i knew how to use it properly!!

its such a shame... wot the world think of Pakistan.
mazaq bana dia hum nay Pakistan ko Crying or Very sad

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The Pakistani Ultimate Media

Mazaaq unno ne hi nahih humare leadoroh aur hum khud ne apna bana rakha he".If we would act,present & project the positive side of Pakistan they could better understand us.When we clean in front of our house than we can expect from others.We should respect ourselves world will automatically respect.

Actually Pakistan is a devolping country. It has grown fast in last few months, but we still have a long way to go.
most misunderstanding and misconceptions are also because of us and is no1's else's fault. But god forbid, u cant even say that in our country, 'se then ppl blame u for bieng unpatriotic.
we need to open our minds and hearts, the rest will take care of itself. Education is the key.

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"You are free- you are free to go to your temples mosques or any other place of worship in this state of Pakistan. You may belong to any religion, caste or creed, THAT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THE BUSINESS OF THE STATE"... Jinnah, Aug 11th 1947.

	xclusive wrote:
	its such a shame... wot the world think of Pakistan. mazaq bana dia hum nay Pakistan ko

pakistan zindabaad

Pakistan is a beautiful country, but the only prob is the corrupt government. Let us all remember Pakistan in our daily prayers. Pakistan Zindabaad!

Pakistan's has always owed to its problems to its incompetent leadership, if this word can even be used. Because of weakest education & development policies our economy has always declined instead of rising like india, which is a shame. Even worse, the immage of Muslim Ummah is being torn apart in the world. We have never been in a position to compete with strong media against us to prove that we are not correctly being portrayed by the prejudiced media, and that Islam is a religion of peace not war.

I live in Canada and it is so difficult when I see displeasure in the eyes of western people when I tell them that I am a Pakistani. So what can be done?

What I have decided to do is to 'lead by example'. Instead of arguing with people it is better to show a strong character in terms of your attitude. That is, only by our ACTIONS we can show them what a REAL PAKISTANI MUSLIM is..!! Even if I influence a few people I'm sure I'll serve my purpose. I expect every Pakistani to do the same wherever in the world they live. These small things can affect the hearts of people and show them the light of Islam.

great work

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explorer wrote:

Pakistan's has always owed to its problems to its incompetent leadership, if this word can even be used. Because of weakest education & development policies our economy has always declined instead of rising like india, which is a shame. Even worse, the immage of Muslim Ummah is being torn apart in the world. We have never been in a position to compete with strong media against us to prove that we are not correctly being portrayed by the prejudiced media, and that Islam is a religion of peace not war.

I live in Canada and it is so difficult when I see displeasure in the eyes of western people when I tell them that I am a Pakistani. So what can be done?

What I have decided to do is to 'lead by example'. Instead of arguing with people it is better to show a strong character in terms of your attitude. That is, only by our ACTIONS we can show them what a REAL PAKISTANI MUSLIM is..!! Even if I influence a few people I'm sure I'll serve my purpose. I expect every Pakistani to do the same wherever in the world they live. These small things can affect the hearts of people and show them the light of Islam.

very good I am with you brov.

I fully support explorer & will like to add that I also practically follow the same philosophy.Every individual Pakistani can serve Pakistan in this way.

I would like to add , based on my personal experiences

There are two types of Pakistanis living abroad
1. Those who are there to earn good money. For most of them nothing else is important. Earn whatsoever it costs. For most of them local culture and systems dont matter. How to dress, how to talk, how to behave dont matter for them. (I am talking here in general terms.........exceptions are always there)

2. Those who are there to settle there.
Unfortunately, even these people. They dont give much attention to the culture and systems of the local people.
They feel themselves proud of remaining at a distance with the local people. They feel proud in continuing with the same traditions that they had been observing in Pakistan.

What does this all lead to.

The local people think about us as someone who dont like them.
They think that we (Pakistanis) dont like their culture
They think that we are there only to make money out of the locals
They think that we dont like their language

So they put us all in a bracket, and keep distance from us, and remain suspicious.

This is what we have been experiencing outside Pakistan

Is this correct.

salam 2 all! n Mr. Ahmed u r quite rite. giving respect 2 others' culture n religion is the most effective way to get respect 4 ur own bt unfortunately many ppl think that respecting others' culture means that u r adopting it. our religion always encourages to respect other religions. Allah says in Quran that all the places of prayer i.e Masjid, mANDER OR Church, r 4 the same Lord. respecting them is to respect that Lord.

ahmet2910 wrote:

I would like to add , based on my personal experiences

There are two types of Pakistanis living abroad
1. Those who are there to earn good money. For most of them nothing else is important. Earn whatsoever it costs. For most of them local culture and systems dont matter. How to dress, how to talk, how to behave dont matter for them. (I am talking here in general terms.........exceptions are always there)

2. Those who are there to settle there.
Unfortunately, even these people. They dont give much attention to the culture and systems of the local people.
They feel themselves proud of remaining at a distance with the local people. They feel proud in continuing with the same traditions that they had been observing in Pakistan.

What does this all lead to.

The local people think about us as someone who dont like them.
They think that we (Pakistanis) dont like their culture
They think that we are there only to make money out of the locals
They think that we dont like their language

So they put us all in a bracket, and keep distance from us, and remain suspicious.

This is what we have been experiencing outside Pakistan

Is this correct.

would you explain exactly what does it mean to "respect the culture of these people"? for example you can tell us what you do in cyprus to keep the local people happy and that they dont become wary of where you from and what you do and whether you respect their culture or not?

cuz I am having loads of other categories of people who stay abroad for some other reasons.

Its good question
That makes me clarify my point further.

Here in turkish cyprus we dont have many pakistanis. However, commonly its noticed that in the presence of cypriots, two pakistanis prefer to talk in Urdu or Panjabi among themselves. The trukish cypriots to mind that. When asked Pakistanis says, we should speak our language among themselves.

THIS IS WRONG IN MY OPINION

Turkish are the people, who like Pakistanis, but when Pakistanis prefer not to learn turkish language, and prefer to remain active either among pakistanis only, or deal with only those turkish cypriots, who can speak english .

Turkish people, prefer to speak turkish, even if they know english, and most of them openly complain that why the pakistanis prefer english over turkish.
Mind it turkish is not a difficult language, and everybody here helps foreigners to teach them and to encourage them speaking english. They do appreciate if you speak wrong turkish, but they dont like if you speak english with them.

This is one simple example.

pakistan ko salaam!!!!

Please correct my last post

The turkish people here encourage everybody to learn turkish and they ask them to speak turkish and not english
They do appreciate even if you speak broken or wrong turkish.

What you mean is basically one has to integrate himself in other countries.Islam doesn,t stops anyone from living abroad or for this matter in any country where the other religion people are in majority like Babur said"HAR MULK E MULK E MA AST KE MULKE KHUDA E MA AST"every land belongs to the God.Islam ordered to obey the laws of any country where we lives or with whom we have a contract(Visa,pasports,residence permit etc) & we have to be loyal to them.But it shouldn,t mean that we should convert to other religions or to adopt their culture.i agree,living abroad we all are the ambassadors of our nations,we should try to learn their languages,respect their laws & their culture,but that we can do it without leaving our own culture & own identity.We should be capable of presenting our religion,nation & culture in such a manner that project the possitive aspects of our religion,nation & culture.If we really follow the true teaching of Islam in its spirit practically we will have no problems whatsoever eg.Islam teaches us to have the best manners,behaviour & good relations with other fellow humanbeings & once we get along with them can convince & compell them about the positive side of our riligion,nation & culture.Learning any language is a knowledge & Islam emphasises on getting knowledge of any sort.To dress well & to be clean is according to islam half of the "Imaan".so if we adopt all these good things,we can be successfull everywhere.A man is valued as he makes himself valueable.