Pakistan

115 Pakistanis return from Japan

Those returning say that the Pakistani embassy in Japan did not help them in the aftermath of the quake.

Express March 15, 2011

ISLAMABAD: A PIA flight carrying more than 115 Pakistanis from Japan arrived in Islamabad on Tuesday.

Speaking to the media at the airport, they said their homes and businesses have been destroyed in Friday's earthquake.

They said the Pakistani embassy in Japan did not help them in the aftermath of the earthquake and the tsunami, adding that 18 thousand Pakistanis were still stranded in different parts of Japan.

On Friday, Japan was rocked by a deadly earthquake which triggered a tsunami and caused massive devastation. An explosion at the ageing Fukushima No. 1 atomic plant blew apart the building housing one of its reactors Saturday, explosions continued on Monday as Japan battled against a nuclear meltdown.

Authorities fear the death toll from the disaster in Japan may top 13,000.

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Khalid Rahim | 13 years ago | Reply @goggi: At fajr I ask Allah to grant me Wisdom and Experience to understand His creations and learn to comprehend them, to use His greatest gift to human kind ' Power of Reasoning ' that we curtly ignore. Rumi told his pupils ' the aim of a book may be to instruct, yet you may use it as a pillow. Although its object is to give knowledge, direction, profit. Our education system does not give us the perception of knowledge and direction, while profit is percieved as means of gaining wealth by whatever means available.How many would interpret the word profit as benefit to gain both worldly and spiritual experience. When the leadership in this country has lost sense of direction! How do you expect the masses not to behave like cattle. If every leader, commander, manager were to place this qoutation of Dag Hammarsjkold instead of verses from the Koran which they interpret according to whim. ' Your position never gives you the right to command. It only imposes on you the duty of so living your life that others can receive your orders without being humiliated. Can we search the haystacks of our mind to find the leadership that is not wealthy and powerful but with infallible character.

goggi | 13 years ago | Reply @Khalid Rahim: bhai sahib laws of nature knows no coincidences, everything underlies the principles of causes and effects. We did not incidently become such a ignorant society of hypocrites, it is the result of our awareness for this universal humanitarian consciousness, which we totally lack. To gather knowledge of our collective consciousness, we just need to watch our behaviour in traffic or just throw eyes on the garbage and filth lying everywhere on the roads, and all these hate crimes in the name of Islam or political parties. Our society is now being used as a synonymous for hell, intolerance, every day target killings, voilence towards children who are being brainwashed for suicide attacks etc. I feel really very sad.

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Adam | 13 years ago | Reply I think you guys misunderstood what Gul has said. He probably means that there are thousands of Pakistanis in Japan and 115 is a very small number overall. Don't you think a much larger number of people move back and forth between Japan and Pakistan on a daily basis in normal circumstances?

Usama Zafar | 13 years ago | Reply Im glad we have sane people like Khalid Rahim and Goggi. As for the Pakistanis who flew back....shame on them!!

Khalid Rahim | 13 years ago | Reply @goggi: Thank you for understanding. We all seek admission in the best and most expensive school to impress upon others of our academic qualifications? Whereas the fact is that education is not learning, it is the excercise and development of mind? Only yesterday in these debate I asked did the foreigners pack up their bags in 2005 when the earthquake devasted our cities. They came rushing as humans from Gulf, Far East,Europe and America not because we are the professed saviors of Islam? But as human we too will help in hour of need.

goggi | 13 years ago | Reply @Gul: you are too immature to understand the message of Mr. khalid Rahim. I live in Europe and would never leave this country in such an hour of emergency. The basic religion of the world is nothing else then "Humanity" which knows no homeland. What a disgrace when the crucial time of the japanese is over, and these people fly back.

Gul | 13 years ago | Reply @Khalid Rahim: There are over 18 thousand Pakistanis living in Japan. Try to make some sense with your comment, these are only 115 who have returned. There is a nuclear disaster there, alot of people are moving out. Try to make some sense with your comments

mawali | 13 years ago | Reply "115 Pakistani's return from Japan" to witness true mayhem in the homeland.

Khalid Rahim | 13 years ago | Reply What were Pakistanis doing along the coastline of Japan? Were they employed the fisheries helping catch whales or diving to recover oysters with pearls or employed as experts at nuclear power station? Unless threatend by 'Japanese Taliban' they should have stayed back and joined their hosts in hour of need. Blaming the embassy will serve no purpose, had they stayed back and volunteered as members of the community they would have raised not only the image of Pakistan but that of Mulsims as whole. I am sure the Japanese government would not have ignored them and helped them in far better manner than our own government.

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