We are driven out of Pakistan by unrefined, uncouth people in the majority, that now it is the norm to break the law.
ISLAMABAD: On October 1, in Dreamland Motel in Islamabad, my daughter was standing in line to hand over her ticket and ID to the organisers of the SAT II test. A girl in hijab — and she must have been 17 or 18 years old — cut the line, and pushed her way ahead of my daughter. My daughter moved back a step, looked at that girl, then patiently waited for her turn which was wrongfully taken from her and all the students standing behind.
The organisers did not even bother to tell the girl who had cut the line to go back and wait for her turn, just like everyone else.
The impression I got from this is that the girl who cut the line has a bad upbringing and doesn’t know the first thing about civic sense and manners.
Perhaps, this is why people like me want to leave Pakistan; we are driven out of this country by unrefined and uncouth people who are now in the majority, so much so that it is now the norm to break the law.
Fauzia Husain
Published in The Express Tribune, October 2nd, 2011.
