A Nepali trying to understand Pakistan
Fellow Nepali here, I have been lurking in this Subreddit for a long time, and today I thought of connecting with you people. You guys are very distant from us but based on post that I see here we share a similar kind of struggle. As a Nepali, We instinctively know about India its culture, its politics and all but Pakistan has always been that distant cousin that you know he exists but never visits our home. So, I took up this endeavor to learn about your history.I picked up some book related to Pakistan history and one thing that intrigued me was there were two states that were formed based on religion one was Israel and another was Pakistan.The gist of that book was how since its inception Pakistan has been struggling with national identity crisis. It had its local Muslim population, Indian Muslim who migrated here after partition and other minority religion.These all had to come and live under a common umbrella called PAKISTAN.There were also Bangladeshi who fell under this umbrella cause of shared religion but after 1971 they got separated.Based on records, Pakistan Army acted very heavy-handed in order to suppress the separatist movement.I think this was in yaya khan period plus he was succeeded by Bhutto.There was this Ayub khan character, Who was your first military dictator.Bhutto must have been your most influential leader, based on my research he was a socialist reformer.Even after being hanged by zia, he still carried out Bhutto's reforms.Your Atomic program was thought child of Bhutto, but it was brought into reality by zia.Then came parvez mussaraf I guess.He was the general during kargil war, Later on he threw nawaz sharif government and became president or something.I remember this nawaz guy cause there was SARRC summit happening in Kathmandu and this guy was PM of Pakistan back then.We had bought luxury cars from India for our guest, but he had bought his own car because he didn't want to use Indian owned car.Then during Earthquake, You guys also came I could see the Pakistani Air Force Aircraft in our skies.Pakistan had also sent some aid, but the aid also had a beef product. It didn't make big news here but there were some reports in Pakistani media.I also remember there was this terrorist attack in military school, where a lot of children had died and during our morning assembly we prayed for them.
There decent number of Indians and Chinese in Nepal, but I don't think there are much Pakistanis here, and I don't think you visit Nepal for tourism, but this is a chill country ok.People and culture are also good, and Night life is also decent here so try to visit our country once.I'll also visit your country someday.
Thank you, for reading my post.I know I have touched some sensitive topic and I didn't want to use AI to polish this, so If something offends you I am sorry, these are personal opinion based on personal research and biases.Hope you have a good day ahead.