Pakistan

[mudskipper]

Just seen the latest on Pakistan on telly.

So why aren't people (en masse, not as individuals) giving their dosh?

Is it because the natural disaster was fairly mundane - flooding (hell, we get that here!) rather than an earthquake or tsunami?

Or do we associate Pakistan with the things we hear about on telly - so called honour killings, forced marriages and the like.

Or is it the reported terrorism links?

Why aren't we coughing up?

[TimberWolf]

We send aid workers over there and they keep killing them.

[Mich the Tester]

They've never quite been as good since Imran Khan and Abdul Qadir stopped playing.

But yes, it's all bloody unfair on a lot of innocent people. I've done my pathetic little bit by handing over a couple of notes to an appeal, but I rather fear that some people see the word 'muslim' and semi-deliberately miss the concept of 'human being'.

[gingerjedi]

They can afford nuclear weapons, why do they need our cash?

[Mich the Tester]

They can afford nuclear weapons, why do they need our cash?

Well, the corrupt bastard government can afford nuclear weapons, but some bloke who's just lost his house can't.

It's the way things go. Ireland's (British) government exported grain while the population starved. Ethiopia is one of the world's most fertile, greenest countries, but if some bastard with power wants people to starve, they starve.

The people who are suffering aren't Pakistanis to my mind, they're just people who need a bit of help. A whole family in Pakistan could eat for a day for the price of one glass of the average-to-middling muscadet I had with my meal this evening, so just sparing a little bit can't hurt.

[MarillionFan]

Just seen the latest on Pakistan on telly.

So why aren't people (en masse, not as individuals) giving their dosh?

Is it because the natural disaster was fairly mundane - flooding (hell, we get that here!) rather than an earthquake or tsunami?

Or do we associate Pakistan with the things we hear about on telly - so called honour killings, forced marriages and the like.

Or is it the reported terrorism links?

Why aren't we coughing up?

Because on the whole Pakistan born Brits keep trying to blow us up in our own country.

It's like recently, two big stories in the news. 'A British child has been kidnapped in Pakistan', 'A British family have been shot in Pakistan' and then cue some Asian Northerner 'eee by gum, me arranged marriage to Abdul has gone wrong'

They're not British. They're Pakistani. Until you cut ties and become part of the 'British' society you're not going to get sympathy. In my personal opinion.

[Mich the Tester]

Because on the whole Pakistan born Brits keep trying to blow us up in our own country.

It's like recently, two big stories in the news. 'A British child has been kidnapped in Pakistan', 'A British family have been shot in Pakistan' and then cue some Asian Northerner 'eee by gum, me arranged marriage to Abdul has gone wrong'

They're not British. They're Pakistani. Until you cut ties and become part of the 'British' society you're not going to get sympathy. In my personal opinion.

try explaining this to a three year old who's lost his mum and hasn't eaten for a week

[HairyArsedBloke]

Why aren't we coughing up?

Could it be that they have made such a nuisance of themselves that nobody likes them much?

[mudskipper]

Because on the whole Pakistan born Brits keep trying to blow us up in our own country.

It's like recently, two big stories in the news. 'A British child has been kidnapped in Pakistan', 'A British family have been shot in Pakistan' and then cue some Asian Northerner 'eee by gum, me arranged marriage to Abdul has gone wrong'

They're not British. They're Pakistani. Until you cut ties and become part of the 'British' society you're not going to get sympathy. In my personal opinion.

Reckon you're right - we very rarely hear anything positive about Pakistan.

Feeling very sad about the whole thing. Charitable donations directly proportional to consumption of Chilean Malbec...

[MarillionFan]

try explaining this to a three year old who's lost his mum and hasn't eaten for a week

But thats the truth. As bad as it is, I don't believe that the plight of Pakistan (from a media/British perspective) & that it is a flood, falls into the same mindset as other natural disasters.