Wednesday, June 15, 2005

Why are young Pakistanis leaving Pakistan?

I guess the answer can be as simple as it can get. If you stop once in a while and just stand back and look at how and where these people are crazily running to... is mind blowing! I think that if any one of us, comes into the ways of each other be it on the road, at work, while helping others or while killing someone else out of extreme anger and mad blindness, at times life here can be pretty unusual. An easy example can be to observe while you are driving.
I cant help but to mention the hate you can see in the eyes of the driver next to you as he pumps his horn or dippers his headlights screaming at you to get out of his way, as if dad had left all the screwed up roads of this beautifully divided country, on his name before the partition.
What can a young man, full of dreams, energy and passion, do in such a place? Some of them have even tried a million times to stay back and do something here, at least that’s what most of the young Pakistanis want and ask for deep down inside, but once they see everyone leaving all around especially now when the ads in the papers make it very easy for them to try and gather some money by asking or getting from wherever they can, they do manage to bail out.
Ironically, the broadcast sector is on a burst in Pakistan and its funny that majority of the TV Networks are saying that there is hardly any talent to find. Producers, Directors, Cameramen, Creative directors, are all being called in from various parts of the world, besides Pakistan. The sad part is that there are still talented people existing who are trendsetters of this desert, yet oblivious to the eyes of the world.