How is it hiding? You should know I am never in favor of hiding our mistakes. Highlighting them is a duty because only by admitting our faults we can fix them. But have you or Solomon ever admitted to faults in America. Criticizing as an outsider is very, very easy.
We all know the trash heaps pile like mountains on the streets of Karachi and it must be pretty much the same everywhere in the country. But do you have a suggestion to make it better? Have you picked up trash from the streets like I have?
I will tell you where there is hope in a seemingly, from an outsiders point of view (or some locals too), hopeless situation. We were walking in the streets of Karachi, me and my colleague and my colleague said "look there are no trashcans here in Pakistan kya karein?," and he threw his garbage onto the street. I said nothing and as we walked further I saw a trashcan and disposed of my own piece of trash. I look back and see I should have stopped my colleague personally when he was throwing trash at an earlier location. But was too young. The first step is calling a wrong a wrong. We are there already, even my colleague knew what he was doing was wrong. Then it is stopping the wrong. We haven't started there yet.
Btw that seems like a side jab at me rather than qouting me and responding. I can see why khafee thinks negatively of you though you have seen how completely I disagree with him. Anyway I will say that outsiders may at times give a balanced view or even a critical view of the country which is much needed because in everyones own eyes his country is perfect which doesn't help.
However despair is not a policy and I say the same to
@MastanKhan. Lets work to make the country better. Perhaps we can start a cleanliness drive. Perhaps if each of us sacrifices only 10 ruppees we can feed Pakistanis. I do not want to boast but I have given my first whole salary to poor people in Pakistan and on other poverty alleviating projects. We should all do the same.
Also a long time back my father visited Delhi. The roads were unpaved and litter piled the street like ant mounds. The locals were tired of government inaction and garbage piled on the streets. They themselves picked up shovels and started heaping trash in large trashcans. This is what shows the character of a nations people and I am sorry to say this but India is developing faster than us as a result. AAP won in Delhi because of such work. Anyway point is if the government doesn't do it
we should. Of course that's not accepting the situation is normal. In developed countries the governments are not useless.
And we have to keep going, keep trying to make the country better. You won't obviously syed, sitting cosily in America with heaters, ac's and what not and will only complain but I mean we Pakistanis. I would request you not to make a duplicitous claim that you know Pakistan because you are an American! Even I don't know Pakistan because I haven't been everywhere in it. But I believe in Pakistan because if we were still in Lucknow each one of us would be either in jail or dead on every false charge we can imagine.
@WebMaster is there a way we can arrange some sort of cleaning campaign by ourselves. It can start from Multan, Mastan Khan.
Also again hopelessness is not a policy. Look at the Indians here on this thread for once. Have they lost hope. I have lived in Lucknow for sometime and have seen the trash dumps in my very neighborhood. But one Indian here is claiming there is no trash in India at all. It signifies hope mixed with what we do not have-the belief that his country is on the right part. But hope is a basic thing even if we do not think we have the right government or are on the right track. All of us should have it.
@Kaptaan @RescueRanger @truthseer @naveedullahkhankhattak Others.
