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Pakistan is a wonderful example of the joint family system. No matter how old you are, what station you have attained in life, you are most likely to be living with your parents in some capacity.
First, there was The New York Times decrying Pakistan’s nuclear weapons capabilities because we were buying nuclear submarines from China and we have missiles that can deliver a nuclear warhead to Israel, America’s greatest partner in the Middle East.
If I were to tell you that the training contingent that is in Saudi right now is only Sunni soldiers and officers, would you still believe that the Yemen war is justified?
This past week has been like no other in Pakistan’s history. We are used to watching our own country projecting conspiracy theories and rumors as information, but rarely is there a national debate on whether Pakistan should be involved in someone else’s war.
We hate. You can insert any phrase or words that you like after the first two and you find that we, as a nation, put much more energy into hatred without drawing any motivation or benefit from it. And this is how we got today’s Pakistan.
It’s difficult for a country, like Pakistan, that struggles with so many internal issues to even consider how to counter an argument against us or our religion, when they can point to any number of incidents in the past week that prove their point.
First, for years now, I have been talking about the Balkanization of Pakistan, while most people have laughed at me for saying it. Let me paint the picture for you as it stands today.
