From: hasan@cs.washington.edu (Shams Hasan)
Subject: Re: Washington Ready to Brand Pakistan a Terrorist State
Summary: This dude, Manoj is a Pakitani on SCP, interested in Pakistan, not u. 
Organization: Computer Science & Engineering, U. of Washington, Seattle
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 92 00:12:07 GMT

In article <BzIxLu.J3F@uceng.uc.edu> mghayalo@uceng.uc.edu (Manoj Ghayalod) writes:
>In article <1992Dec18.213636.28616@beaver.cs.washington.edu> hasan@cs.washington.edu (Shams Hasan) writes:
>>Dear fellow Pakis/PakAmericans,
>>
>>Pakistan is a nation waiting to be borned. 
>>
>>For the capable and proficient, who can express well and have access to Pakistanis in positions of power, we MUST all join together in sending REGUALAR mail
>>and whenever we can FAXES, to government officials in Islamabad, as well as the
>>upcoming generation that was borned in Pakistan after partition and who are
>>successful in Pakistan today.
>>
>>Economically, we lack coordiantion and sound representation. For example,
>>there is not coordinated and concentrated effort in making an export policy
>>targetting the world, with each and every country aggressively persued.
>>
>>Internally, we have poor technological implementation, with a dispropotionate
>>amount of people in rural areas with no hope of educating themselves for the
>>upcoming demands of the 21st century.
>>
>>So, that is to give you an idea of some of the tasks ahead. 
>>
>>Division by ethnicity and language has been a big barrier to progress in
>>Pakistan. I myself come from a landlord family of Pathan/Iranian stock that settled in India over two hundred years ago. I speak Urdu, as my mother tongue, 
>>and being borned in Karachi, Pakistan, consider myself a Pakistani first and
>>formost by heritage, not UP wala nor Pathan (Even though all my family looks
>                                                               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>typicaly pathan/iranian due to internal family marriages over generations) nor
>^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>iranian.
>
>This dude seems proud to be a Pakistani and even prouder not to look
>like a Pakistani.

TO ANWER THIS MALICIOUS AND UNPROVOKED REMARK BY THIS PERSON, I CAN ONLY SAY,
MANOJ, PAKISTANIS LOOK, AND WALK AND TALK LIKE PAKISTANIS, WETHER THEY BE
FAIR, DARK OR ANY OTHER COLOR. INDIANS, ESPECIALLY, HINDOOS, LIKE YOU LOOK,
AND WALK AND TALK LIKE INDIANS AND HINDOOS, WHERE EVER YOU MAY BE.

>>
>>So, all of you who feel for Pakistan like I feel, who think of Pakistan like
>>I think and who are PROUD of your Pakistani heritage, like I am, and who all
>>dream in their hearts that one day we want to go and live there at some period
>>of our lives, let us begin discussion on this valuable forum, and if God 
>>willing, we will overcome all odds.
>>
>>Thanks for your patience.  I await anxiously your valued articles.
>>
>>Best Regards,
>>Shams Hasan.
>>
>>
>>
>
>Manoj

Yes, we are proud of the Pakistani heritage, and yes, I will continue to find
people who are interested in Pakistan. 

It seems to me that you and people like you get a bit uncomfortable when 
people with Pakistani heritage or Pakistanis themselves want to do something
constructive......

Best Regards,
Shams Hasan.












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