I was born in Pakistan and have lived here, which means you are going to read alot in course books about Independence movement and then about the wars we had with India. Sadly, in these books, they do not tell you the truth. I see every thing as fake except the Independence movement and our Quaid. I will never accept that partition movement was bad or creation of Pakistan was a bad thing to happen. I don’t want to go in all that now so let’s stick to what I wanted to say.
I grew up with a bad image of India, there was only minor exchange of fire between armies of Pakistan and India during my “growing up” except Kargil in 1999, which was a bit more, frankly speaking it did excite me, used to curse them for it and the propaganda they were doing, was extremely happy when an Indian fighter was shot down by Pakistan & then what I remember is that Nawaz went to USA, met with Clinton and Nawaz calls the Army back. I was quite angry at Nawaz doing that, I thought he did bad by calling back the Army.
I had same thoughts about India for next few years until I stumbled upon an Indian in MSN Chatroom, our first conversations were not so pleasent, both of us were to blame though not just me alone. But then after a few days or perhaps weeks we were friends, I had to think a little better of India now because of the friend! Little after that, I came across the real version of Kargil and the wars before with India, which left me shocked & ofcourse it improved India’s image in my eyes. A few points about India were clarified by my friend from India and now I am friends with about 5 Indians!!! & the hatred part for India is no more there, I still have a few concerns about India’s behaviour towards Pakistan but they are nothing too much to worry about.
It’s really amazing and funny when I look at past and remember my hatred for India. I have become so tolerant just because of a friend from India or say friends. Happy about it. Both countries should go ahead with peace and stop their “stubbornness”. This time is not for conflicts but to live with peace and defend together against a wicked giant, America. I don’t see it happening any soon though.
So majority of the friends I know from India live in Mumbai. I heard alot about Mumbai, watched a program about Mumbai on National Geographic yesterday & believe me, I am impressed. They are doing a really good job out there. It’s a very populous city, they told about the trains, how they were being maintained & told new projects in Mumbai. Like they were building a sort of highway around Mumbai in the sea! and a little between Mumbai to divert traffic in those directions so the people are relieved of traffic jams and the trains relieved of congestion. They showed the newly populated area which is called New Mumbai, it was good too. Also showed the new train system which is going to take place in Mumbai sometime, it’s not a train actually but like hanging bus, hehe, but I liked the idea. The compartment was very well designed, it looked little but when they showed it from inside it was quite huge. Onc compartment can hold 100+ ppl. The good thing about all these projects is that their designers and chief engineers are Indians! Come here to Pakistan and you will sight a foreign company completing most of the huge projects. Oh & the most interesting part there was the “Dabbe Wala Service”. It was just amazing. It’s a lunch box service or catering service in Mumbai, where this service provides lunch boxes to thousands of people. The amazing part here is that in all this process, even a single piece of paper is not used and the ones who deliver lunch boxes are illiterate, they deliver according to the signs made on the lunch boxes and a delivery guy was saying that he has been delivering the boxes since past 27 years and not a single box has gone missing or was delivered to wrong person. If they deliver wrong its going to cause a problem because a vegetarian will not eat non-veg and so on. Now the most amazing part is that Forbes Magazine rated this catering service a rating which they gave to billionare companies like General Motors & Motorola!!!
Must have heard about the bomb blasts recently in Mumbai which killed around 180 people and injured hundreds. Whoever did those blasts is not a human to me let alone muslim. If they were “Jihadis”, then they better rule themselves out of Islam and muslimhood because they just not killed 180 people but damaged 180 families and caused trouble for billions of people. Have you seen Mumbai trains in rush hours? If not then look at them, do you really think doing a blast there is human? You are not just going to kill people but jam whole network of transport, which is going to create problem for a hell lot of people. If someone calls himself a muslim and does such an act then he should be ashamed. Our Prophet Muhammad (PBUH&HF) asked us to remove thorns and stones from the public way so that people are not troubled with it and guess what you are doing, placing giant thorns and stones all over for lacs of people whose life is going with the trains.
nice to read about india.
Same here abu, u know how i was..few years back, first thing that came in my mind about pakistan was BURKHA n a terrorist country..n that u very well know is the situation of many ppl in india. I know it through u n thanks to media that pakistan is no different from india except the dictatorship rule.
Sumit had commented in my blog that “mumbai is an orphan city”..i think whole of india is..it is the power of common man in india that is taking it to heights, yes to an extent the policies of the government but i think major credit lies for the common man who is taking risks and doing whatever he can in the worst of situation..it is the democracy u can say which is the strongest weapon(though i dont like touse this word) of this country.
For evrything here u c 2 things..one side are big big companies doing wonders like infosys and on the other side of hedge u c the corrupt politicians n bureucrats(goons rather)..its a heterogeneous country..nothing can be generalised here.
I always have had a soft corner for mumbai..just love the city but now i am realising that delhi aint much rough either.(as u kno i roam arnd more in the city then before)
dabbawalas were called by prince charles on his wedding!n they presented a sari to camella..they r very cool people.
partition is something we indians will always dislike..somehow for us it is through “genes” unacceptable but then thats the truth.
pata nahi even today i get this feeling that the two countries will get togather..silly i kno n completely impossible but still.
i find pakis no diff…just same..infact perhaps more warm then us indians.
if one does hijaab doesnt mean that he/she is conservative..that has never been the case..but i tell u here ppl do take it as conservative..its upto individuals “shradha”.
was happy to read something not related wid comp.!
Juju said:
Jeez, I am laughing. How can you compare us with Taliban? *snif* *snif* Hijab rules, not BURKHA :p.
Hmm, you better have a soft corner for Mumbai else you know what can happen =P. Well, ghar main bethne se to tumhe shehar nahi dikhne wala. You have to go out and see for your self.
Reallie? How come they did not say it in the “National Geographic” program? You watch it or not? The Mega Structures one, it’s Season 2 is going to start from 24th of July. I won’t be able to watch it though, it comes on Cable, cable only in bhai’s room. I can’t always go there and watch!
*blush*
You break the records, this is the first longest everest comment I have received till date.
hey i forgot to mention that i literally loved the background!
I love pakistanis *angel*
Especially nice pakis who say nice things about my nice city.
Yaar satyam and vinod at Shiachat give a really bad image of Indian hindus, they are such jerks !
Well, I used to hate India when I was a little kid but not anymore because there is no reason, I guess I have better things to do unlike most other patriotic Pakistanis *wink*
Thanks for the blog thing. I wanna try to make a new banner myself on photoshop though hehe *hijabi* I just gotta figure out how! But thank you so much, really appreciate it!
Mohsin, true, but such people exist everywhere. The ones I have come across are not like that at all.
You are welcome Sarah!
I’ve had a lot of interest about reading on the Indian Pakistani war lately(prior to reading this post too) but I don’t know what to pick or what to read..as there are many biased books out there..
Is there anyone who could recommend me a book? a historical book rather..or anything that could develop my knowledge about these events.
Btw, I don’t see any hatred going on within the Pakistani and Indian classmates in my school…the only hatred (well, ’somewhat’) I see is b/n the Pashtuns and the Hazarahs (sp?) and those are from Afghanistan I believe. They don’t show it obviously, but sometimes they talk to me about it.
Hmm. . . Why are you interested in reading about Indo-Pak wars? Recommending you a book. I can’t do that my self. I have read only in course books about all this plus then researching around on Internet and reading few things in newspapers too. Our course books have ALL GOODIE GOODIE side of it, that India attacked then we fought and won and bla bla bla, all these were completely opposite to what really happened. We were told by atleast one teacher of ours about it’s TRUTH.
Pashtuns and the Hazarahs? Those does not exist in Pakistan, but Afghanistan as you said. We due to Government’s policies are more facing like hatred for each other in the provinces! It’s not too much but well, the politicians make so much out of it sadly. But it’s not as bad as what is or was between the Pashtuns and Hazaras in Afghanistan. I think, Hazaras are living in Pakistan too, quite large number esp. in Quetta and Balochistan, Pashtuns live there too, we too are Pashtuns, we don’t have any thing against Hazaras. They are hard working people indeed.
AND the difference between Pashtuns and Hazaras I think mostly came because of Taliban. I don’t know if it was there before them.
Hiyaaa!! This is my first comment here…and why the hell is my email id required?!?
^Why can’t I see my whole comment???? It was sooo looong!!!!!!!!!!!!!
SpIzo, hehe, you should use Firefox. When you click BACK in Firefox, whatever you wrote is still there in the form :p.
BTW, email ID is required incase I have to contact someone :p. LOL. Joking, it won’t show up in public, one can fool it around anyways.
Patri0t, that feature is there in OPERA too. But the reason why I didn’t click BACK was because I thought my looong comment should have appeared instead of just the first two lines. What could have happened?
^See I wrote three more lines in the above comment too; but only the first three lines appeared.
I have no idea SpIzo. You can see others have commented very long
and without any problem. Something with your Browser perhaps? You did not click BACK again? :p