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Brand Pakistan
The brain gain WITH reference to the article The brain gain (March 14), I am sure it was not just the economic gains that convinced the talented Pakistanis to settle abroad. I can only dream of my own house; quality education and health facility for my family. I need a sticker on my car to enter the Cantonment area and I can be stopped anywhere in the city for a humiliating search by police. Am I a first-class citizen? In a country where the state is unable to provide security to even my life and property, patriotism becomes a jargon to my ears. I am better off living in a jungle. At least I know I am my own! I am a foreign qualified MBA with six years working experience in MNCs and in the United Nations. However, despite all these qualifications, I am seriously contemplating moving aboard. Not because I am a talented Pakistani, but because first I am a human being struggling to get on the first ladder of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs. Just how long can you survive in this country (with dignity and respect) without being connected to the untouchables? ZIA DURRANI Quetta The vanishing mangh WITH reference to the article, The vanishing mangh (April 25), the writer rightly calls the present plight, an invaluable loss of architectural culture. The writer has maintained an informative tone in his article, which did fair justice with the history of manghs and by this way he has projected the sanity of the use of manghs in Sindh. It would have been worth mentioning in his article, that Hyderabad has been called a “city of wind catchers/manghs”, where the pigeon-hole apartments are silently taking a toll on this heritage. When I used to live in my maternal town, Tando Allahyar, I remember living in a house that had simple manghs and the ones with shafts. In these homes, there was hardly any need for electrical fans. I hope, efforts will be taken, on both individual and professional levels, to bring this useful and beautiful piece of heritage back to Sindh. ABDUL SUBHAN DAUDPOTA Essex, Ontario, Canada The samosa that went a long way WITH reference to the article The Samosa that went a long way (April 25), the samosa has crossed oceans to reach Canada. In my university, our International Student Association sells around five to six dozen of samosas every week. It’s quite popular with the goras who are, I guess, are fed up with eating their croissants. KAMRAN JAMEEL, Brock University, Canada History under a prism WITH reference to the article History under a prism (April 11), I think the author has shared his personal events and changed the article’s direction to his history. Except for the first and the last paragraph, the whole article was based on the author’s issues. IMRAN SIAL Karachi | ||
WITH reference to the article Brand Pakistan (March 11), the learned writer has compared Pakistan’s political instability and insecurity with Italy and Spain respectively.|
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