Pakistan’s human cockroaches (II)

KARACHI: With reference to Fasi Zaka’s article of August 24, I don’t want to be fenced in with these animals. I don’t believe in the self-righteous religious hypocrisy spreading like a disease in every segment of the population, educated and uneducated. I hate it. There are people who have the opportunity to complete four years of university education in America and then come back and have the audacity to be unapologetic about holding unfounded beliefs like how blowing up Jews is an act of goodwill, or how beating a woman is acceptable.

The writer is right. We Pakistanis are the problem. It’s not the system. It’s not the Americans. In fact when I leave Pakistan and go elsewhere I make every effort not to be associated with Pakistanis. And I am unapologetic. And if that makes me unpatriotic, so be it.

T Rahim

Published in The Express Tribune, August 29^th, 2010.