Yeah, I know them too. But they are mostly over-westernized people or one parent is a native of the country they are living in. Daddy had a relationship with mommy just for visa purposes and left after the paperwork was done... unfortunately there are such people out there.
Delima is people living outside they know Islam is the best solution for our life and country which is try but people in Pakistan they thing living in west is better than Pak so they want to get out of the pressure society create and on top of that molvies who represent kind of islam which is not uniting us. we have to sort out many thing.
Hello and Salam Alaikum guys!
I hope you are doing well!
I have often read here on the forum that we Overseas Pakistanis don't have a say in Pakistans internal matters. Mostly if we promote traditional Islamic values or if we don't want Pakistan to implement socialist policies that are proven to be toxic for any economy in the world. They know why we left Pakistan. This website is mostly populated by expats posting from abroad.
I find this kind of sad because we Overseas Pakistani have Pakistan in mind all the time. It's very ungrateful to belittle the achievements of Overseas Pakistani. You can check any website with remittance data and see how important the remittances of Overseas Pakistani are for the country. Of course it would be better if no remittances were needed, but the reality is, many families and charities in Pakistan depend on the money Overseas Pakistani send back home.
I will never forget the poor Pakistani waiter I met on vacation in Malta. He shared his place with 5 other foreigners making 600 Euros a month and sending almost everything back to his wife and children. Where is the gratefulness for their sacrifice? Living abroad, working hard jobs and long hours for a little pay. Just to see their family in good old Pakistan happy and fed :S. My late granddad left Pakistans decades ago and he invested in his village not only for the good of our family. He built a school and financed marriages for the poor!
I don't know if giving money away for free is the right thing to do, especially if they are not core familiy (wife, parents, children..). Most people from the extended families develop this feeling of being entitlted to that money without good reason. I know Pakistanis here in the West who were later hated on by their families because they couldn't afford to send money back anymore due financial problems. I don't send any money to my family in Pakistan because they simply don't need it. But giving money to charity is a good thing and ,many succesful Pakistanis making six figures here in Europe are heavily interested in the well-being of our poorer Pakistani brothers and sisters. Being charitable is in our DNA.
What I want to say is: don't have this attitude regarding Overseas Pakistanis, most of those haters would leave Pakistan for good if the fancy European Embassy grant them a Schengen Visa. So stop that please!
What do you say Overseas Gang?
@AgNoStiC MuSliM @waz @Mangus Ortus Novem @Yankee-stani @Rusty @Shantanu_Left @Crusher @WebMaster @Cliftonite
Hello and Salam Alaikum guys!
I hope you are doing well!
I have often read here on the forum that we Overseas Pakistanis don't have a say in Pakistans internal matters. Mostly if we promote traditional Islamic values or if we don't want Pakistan to implement socialist policies that are proven to be toxic for any economy in the world. They know why we left Pakistan. This website is mostly populated by expats posting from abroad.
I find this kind of sad because we Overseas Pakistani have Pakistan in mind all the time. It's very ungrateful to belittle the achievements of Overseas Pakistani. You can check any website with remittance data and see how important the remittances of Overseas Pakistani are for the country. Of course it would be better if no remittances were needed, but the reality is, many families and charities in Pakistan depend on the money Overseas Pakistani send back home.
I will never forget the poor Pakistani waiter I met on vacation in Malta. He shared his place with 5 other foreigners making 600 Euros a month and sending almost everything back to his wife and children. Where is the gratefulness for their sacrifice? Living abroad, working hard jobs and long hours for a little pay. Just to see their family in good old Pakistan happy and fed :S. My late granddad left Pakistans decades ago and he invested in his village not only for the good of our family. He built a school and financed marriages for the poor!
I don't know if giving money away for free is the right thing to do, especially if they are not core familiy (wife, parents, children..). Most people from the extended families develop this feeling of being entitlted to that money without good reason. I know Pakistanis here in the West who were later hated on by their families because they couldn't afford to send money back anymore due financial problems. I don't send any money to my family in Pakistan because they simply don't need it. But giving money to charity is a good thing and ,many succesful Pakistanis making six figures here in Europe are heavily interested in the well-being of our poorer Pakistani brothers and sisters. Being charitable is in our DNA.
What I want to say is: don't have this attitude regarding Overseas Pakistanis, most of those haters would leave Pakistan for good if the fancy European Embassy grant them a Schengen Visa. So stop that please!
What do you say Overseas Gang
@AgNoStiC MuSliM @waz @Mangus Ortus Novem @Yankee-stani @Rusty @Shantanu_Left @Crusher @WebMaster @Cliftonite
Thank you brother for your dedication and committment to Pakistan. This is what I am saying all the time. Pakistanis abroad are mostly interested in the well-being of Pakistanis in Pakistan all the time. These ungrateful attitude towards us is just plain stupid. Some Super-Nationalists think we left Pakistan because of gay marriages and discos in the West. I work hard to have my family here in Germany happy and my siblings and I opened an extra bank account transferring money every month to it and twice a year on Eid we give that money to charity.
A main problem here is that our language is not encouraged to learn. Racists teachers say to the parents that they should only speak German with their children at home (but it's totally ok to teach them French and English, but this is a story for another thread). So many teenage Pakistani I know here cannot speak, read or write Urdu which is not so good if you want them to have some connection with Pakistan. And if one parent is a native of the country they are living, yeah, then they are mostly real lost causes. No affiliation to Pakistan, no affiliation to Islam. Brown Germans who complain all the time that the majority of Germans doesn't accept them as equals even though being 110% copies of them.
Every Pakistani I know sends some money back to Pakistan. And the money send back home is a major economic factor that helps the country as a whole! It's not a big deal that you never left Pakistan or your village, this doesn't make you a Super Pakistani if you contribute next to nothing... I am not saying that everybody has to do something for Pakistan (I say if you provide for your family and yourself you have done enough), but giving us attitude, saying we have no right to speak about Pakistan? That's just ungrateful!
