APROPOS the article ‘Pakistan, land of the intolerant’ (Oct 19). The writer should know better; so should The New York Times. You cannot extrapolate a few incidents to malign the entire nation. It is unscientific and greatly misleading.

According to a survey published in The Washington Post (May 15, 2013), Pakistanis are more tolerant than people in almost all the countries in Europe, including France, Germany and Holland. Only Norway, Sweden and Britain have a higher rating.

About 6.5 per cent of Pakistanis said they would not like to have a neighbour from a different race. In India, on the other hand, more than 40 per cent of the people would apparently not like it.

K. Hussan Zia

Mississauga, Canada

Published in Dawn, October 23rd, 2017