One week in Pakistan
So I returned from Pakistan after spending a week there, completing all the business objectives, meeting with my parents, and reminding myself why I decided to move to Dubai at first place.
While I was visiting home, a thought came into my mind that if I get a lavishly attractive job offer from Pakistan, with fringe benefits and a salary package of few hundred thousand rupees, would I consider moving back to my home country? I flirted with the idea throughout my stay but as soon as I landed in Dubai and stepped out of the airport, the thought vanished from my mind like it never existed, until now when I begin to write this post.
Unfortunately, Pakistan is in worse condition today then it was when I left the country over 19 months ago. And I don’t see any hope of things getting better in foreseeable future. The reasons I decided to move out still hold strong.
Don’t take me wrong. I love Pakistan, but blind patriotism is nothing but stupidity. Pakistan has serious issues and I refuse to live in Pakistan until those basic issues are sorted out (no offense and disrespect aimed at people still living in Pakistan and surviving every single day).
I will not go into detail of what problems are being faced by Pakistan as one blog post cannot do justice with this topic, but I must mention problems like power shortage, high fuel prices, security problems, and high level of stress (probably resulting from these issues) as factors that make it hard to live in Pakistan.
The only good and positive thing I noticed was relatively higher levels of penetration of broadband internet. It is slowly becoming affordable to get high speed internet access for common people. But then, what good is high speed internet when you don’t have the electricity to access it.
You can be rich anywhere in the world. But what matters is where you feel secure, independent, happy, and comfortable. I am not saying Dubai satisfies 100% of these requirements (although it is thousand times better), but as of now neither does Pakistan and that’s why I live in Dubai today.
Let’s hope and pray that things in Pakistan improve to a level that it once again becomes a desirable place to live.