The question is then why should my cousin, who is still a poor farmer in Punjab, not be given a similar allotment of land.
Another way to look at it is why should my cousin be asked to give up part of his birth right - now if my cousin is somehow ok with diluting his birth right or welcomes it then so be it.
I think the Pakistani poor, minorities and disenfranchised should be asked the question: do you want to give tracts of land in Lahore, Karachi, the Federal area and other precious resources to Afghan refugees - if they overwhelmingly say yes then who am I to complain. But I think we all know what their answer to that will be.
As a corollary: privileged Pakistanis or people of Pakistani origin, like myself and possibly most of the people on this forum have no right to dilute the birth right of the Pakistani poor.
Perhaps, I am being to idealistic. Though there are Afghans, like in this video, who have lived majority of their lives in Pakistan and were even born in Pakistan, and they have made an honest living here by opening their own business. They are not a burden to our society. So they are not stealing anyone's "right" to this or that. I am just wondering,
if we could integrate them to our society some how and make them Pakistanis, an asset to our society. Afghans are already working and living here. If there is an Afghan who thinks he is a Pakistani, and earns an honest living. I don't think I should have any problem with him.
Maybe I am being a bit Afghan specific. After 1947, many Indian Muslims migrated to Karachi, 65 + latter. They still call themselves "mohajers" don't you think, it might have been a failure on our part to not have them integrate properly in our society? Should we repeat the same mistake again, or learn from our mistake. Migrants are a reality, if it is not Afghans, it might be someone else. The thing is how we are going to deal with it. Deportation is not always the solution...even if you implement, it does not always work.
PS: The Mojajar part, I know many "mahajars" are patriotic Pakistanis, I just used it as an example, which some people use it as an ethnic card. If any feelings hurt, I am sorry for that.