Mohajirs Are People Too nasah #76 [you sure are a purist fascist in a Land of mixed breed]

beats being a hindutva in the land of half breed...

Mohajirs Are People Too shobig #84 "may be that had something to do with my innate affinity for the sea."

shobig payee, khuda nakhwasta tuadi goriaN vargi "affinity" tay naeeN keh jithay sun and sea vaikhia othayee kapRay laa laye?

Mohajirs Are People Too izuber #80 - i concur with shobig payee. but instead of using the term "baniya", which obviously has negative connotation and reeks of heeng, lets use the term "money managers".

so yeah, its no surprise that ALL banks and ALL insurance companies in the early years of Pakistan were started by mohajirs. In fact, if I am not mistaken, it wasnt until the 1990s that a punjabi named Nawaz Sharif (incidentally a mohajir of punjabi/kashmiri origins himself) founded the Punjab Bank.

Mohajirs Are People Too tahir #87 "That's what Elton John, Freddie Mercury, George Michael and Rock Hudson also said. "

but they said it to other men, and did not have the problem of responding to annonymous nicks on a web forum pretending to be female

Mohajirs Are People Too chacha #65 "when inviting guests to your rooh afza party, you may wish to stop referring to "mohajirs" as an ethnicity."

well, other than mirzaees calling themselves muslims, i am not too concerned about what any group wishes to refer to themselves as. i once made a mistake of referring to a very namkeen looking saraiki girl as "punjabi". once she was done uttering choice epithets for punjabis, i immediately accepted her demand that saraikis were NOT punjabis and offered to write “siraikis are not Punjabis” a 100 times in my diary.

so yeah, if a group likes to be called "mohajirs", I am ok with that. if tomorrow they wish to be called "ansaars", i am A-OK with that too.

as for the open house rooh afza party, lets make it a BYOJ (bring your own jug). perhaps karachiites will mix lemon in it, and lahoris will make it with milk. either way, it will be win win situation.

Mohajirs Are People Too chacha tahmed # 40 "if i say something stupid, i would love to get beaten into a pulp since that would make me smarter."

well chacha, two things. your use of the word "if" is fine if it is meant in rhetorical sense and not in conditional sense, since stupidity comes unconditional to you. secondly, short of beating you to death, i dont see how one can beat you into becoming smarter.

hope that helps.

Mohajirs Are People Too NYC "Did you not stop by at the Macdonalds inside the terminal?."

nope. after getting my boarding card, i headed straight to the lounge, where the combination of free internet and three pricey attendants kept my mind occupied for quite some time.

perhaps next time I will visit a karachi Mikey D's. Whats their karachi specialty? McMurgh Paratha Roll?

Mohajirs Are People Too NB boy #8 "All of you miss the main point, Atif found a condom dispenser. Which is a relief, since knowing and loving atif as we all do, we don't want any HIV spreading in the desi population through him."

well YOU should not have to worry about catching HIV from me. as a general rule, I like to keep a distance of at least a continent between us.

Mohajirs Are People Too madihawaris "but do you realize how pompous and condescending you sound"

i not only realize this but I also intended it :)

you write "like the old white american lady who goes 'ooh how advanced have these spanish/indians/asian people have become' whenever she sees one in a suit"

you dont have to be an old white lady to utter such remark. i have been guilty of exclaiming the same when I first saw a hindoo with my own eyes. turned out it was just a circus monkey.

Mohajirs Are People Too nikhat "Unfortunately Karachi carries the budnma stain of henious murder of its own heroes like Hakeem MOHAMMAD SAEED.A person who tried all his life to refresh the body of Karachiites with 'Rooh afza' "

well, i am not sure who murdered Hakeem sahib. But I hope the perpetrators are brought to justice. And when that happens, all of us - mohajirs, punjabis, baloch, and pashtoons will come together for a shots of rooh afza.

Mohajirs Are People Too Zeemax / Salim - I think I have lost you guys in this cryptic talk of chains and necklaces. But "jeweler by copulation" is an interesting term.

Urstruly - thanks for your kind words! but then as echo chacha said in another board, chittarole of these "warriors" is no less entertaining

Mohajirs Are People Too ZK "In other words Karachi Aapka intizaar kar raha hai so you too can come and see why we Karachiites are so enthralled by our city."

ZK sahiba, it took 54 interacts before a karachiite finally uttered a formal invitation. but dair aayed, durust aayed. thanks!

now all we need to do is to coordinate our schedules :)

Mohajirs Are People Too salim [As long as the bride is a pure Lucknavi haseena in a red Nur Jahani gharara, I will not only do a bhangRa but a breakdance, mashed potato, and the Watusi]

haha! i have no clue what a "nur jahani gharara" is, but I am A-ok with marrying any Lucknavi haseena of "pehlay aap, naheen pehlay aap" fame.

and besides the opportunity to watch you dance watusi is an added incentive :)

Mohajirs Are People Too salim #43 [After all is said and done, one yearns for the smooth Punjoo accent after hearing "Aarya, Jaarya, and bol ke bolay kiya bolay Hazraat, ek chai maarna" all day long.

The only culturally imposing figures among the Mohajirs are the remnants of the Lucknavi nobility. When these masters of the Urdu tongue show up, the Biharis swallow their paan ki peek, the Dilliwaalas forget whether they were aarya or jaarya, and even the Pride of this Rajput goes Injun. ]


hahaha! thanks for sharing these secrets of Karachi. I suppose this yearning on both sides to hear each other's urdu is what keeps PIA busy shuttling passengers between Lahore and Karachi.

And in this spirit of Punju-Mojo peace on chowk, I am willing to come over to your place to have genuine Karachi biryani and sheermal, as long as you accept to do bhangRa on my wedding.

Mohajirs Are People Too chacha #34 "I am in awe of your clever answers to questions which I cant imagine anyone with an IQ of more than 20 would actually have asked you."

please stop being a plate pisser by referring to americans as having an IQ lower than 20! Watch the first video in #33.

How insecure does a man have to be to announce on the internet how people "marvel" at him!!

Now THIS is where an IQ greater than 20, or 5 minutes outside the cantonment, would have come in handy for you. When I talked about the "marvel" part, I wasnt referring to myself. I started that whole para by writing a big IF: "For example, I have this policy that if a non-muslim friend asks me".

And my hypothetical questions are not baseless. Those with IQ's greater than 20 know of the situations when an american born and raised hijabi girl with perfectly American accented english gets asked "where are you from?". Ok, this is pardonable since hijab is not that mainstream in US, yet. But what is amazing is the unpardonable dropping of the jaws when she responds "I am from Boston!". And the american equivalent of pakistani cantonment kuttas aka neo-conish republican types may insinuate "and was it your brother or your father who beat you into wearing this...thing?"

So yeah, questions like these are not common. But you have to have an IQ of at least equal to your age to grasp the situation around where you live. But wait, that "An IQ at least equal to your age" may be a good joke when you are in your 20s, but not when you are 65!

Mohajirs Are People Too this is what I mean by my post #32:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jifTmG9drjE&feature=related

http:/ /www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYlaIxNX01Q

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOCf3pg5Z 74&feature=related