Mirpur

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It time for me to tell you a little about the city were we live in Pakistan. It’s called Mirpur, sick place people to live and go on holiday. It’s on the border between Pakistan and India and one time (American pie line) their was a massive war in Mirpur between the 2 countries that almost destroyed the city.

However luckily the Pakistan Army stopped the advance of the Indian army only a couple of miles away. Man to this day when ever I go back I can still see the massive holes in the ground left by the artillery in some places out side of Mirpur.

Well that was the war and a couple of more followed but still that place is unstable and to this day people are still fighting over that land. The next part of the journey was long.

Misconception

Their is huge misconception that pakistan is a islamic country. It is NOT. You might say what is waqas talking about but this is a basic fact. They is no country in the world today that is a Islamic country, yes muslims live their but the countries are eighther Communist, nationalist or inspirred by some other ideology.

Pakistan has 2 main parties the Pakistan Peoples Party (ppp) and the pakistan muslim league both have been in power and both have used the money of Pakistan for they own self.

The current government has previously been in power and was corrupt then and what can i say make your own judgement.

This funny video by Geo news (pakistan's biggest news channel) shows political corruption in a funny way, but it is the reality.




Have a look at tell me what you think sorry it's in Urdu but i think you get the message.

pakistan the basic facts

The first thing i was meant to do was tell you a bit about Pakistan. Well here are some facts.

A bit of a background for Pakistan.

*Officially the islamic republic of Pakistan.
*Pakistan means " land of pure".
*Created in 14 August 1947 .
*Founder of pakistan is M. Ali Jinnah.
*Official language Urdu.
*Population in 2008 was 165.9 million
*Currency rupees.

These are the basic facts about the country of Pakistan. in the next blog i will look at the basic politics of Pakistan and talk more about my travel there.