BanglaBhoot
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Thats not the point. Pakistan is not an ethno-linguistic identity. We start our day with Punjabi roghni parathas and finish with Pashtun Naan. We drink Punjabi lassi the breakfast, eat Afghani pulao in lunch and drink Peshawari qehva after dinner.
In other words, if you are not born and bread in Pakistan, you actually have no idea what it means to be a Pakistani. It means allegiance to a multicultural country which was created upon a spiritual ideology. This is what makes Pakistan unique. Those kids, born and bread abroad in the UK are British not Pakistanis. They are the product of THEIR society, THEIR culture, THEIR language, THEIR education system - NOT ours!
I grew up in London and knew many Pakistanis and West Indians in school. Even 20 years ago the Pakistani youth were very different in character from the Pakistanis I meet in South Asia now so third generation British-Pakistanis will be even more removed culturally I guess. The same applies to Bangladeshis as well.