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By: SMS

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By: AAA

AAA — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 01:20:49 +0000

The terms like Indogs, Pakis, Americunts etc. are created by the Wh*re Queen of England.

By: waqas

waqas — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 20:54:34 +0000

Aftab S. Alam, I don’t know the answer to that. I know I’m Waqas. But ‘the’ Waqas? Probably not

By: Aftab S. Alam

Aftab S. Alam — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 16:24:02 +0000

Fine!

By the way are you ‘the’ Waqas?

By: waqas

waqas — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 15:02:27 +0000

Aftab S. Alam, I do totally understand your point. I simply don’t think I should care about what someone far far away thinks of me. I /would/ care if it were justified, but it isn’t.

And the word for ‘cleanliness’ in Urdu is ‘pakeezgi’, but ‘paki’ and ’safai’ are also used for that. The words for clean is ‘paak’ and ’saaf’.

Everyone is entitled to have opinions of their own, and I respect your’s. But I personally don’t have any issue with being called a Paki.

By: Dr Razahaider

Dr Razahaider — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 13:25:59 +0000

thnx aftab

By: Aftab S. Alam

Aftab S. Alam — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 13:22:47 +0000

Of course, one may call oneself anything one likes. Just by the way, problem in this case is that it’s not us who decided calling ourselves ‘Paki’. And by the way, the word for cleanliness in Urdu is, I thought, ‘Pak’.

Sure, I already have said above that I am nobody and not trying to stop anyone.

Go right ahead with whatever you like!

By: Kiran

Kiran — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 13:03:08 +0000

Waqas, brilliant man!!! I never thought this way. You are 110% right. Thats why i said earlier that theres no harm in using such a term which identifies us as Pakistanis and its upon others how they use it.
Aftab and Dr. Alshaer, i hope you guys are also convinced now….

By: waqas

waqas — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 10:35:54 +0000

I really couldn’t care less about Paki being used as a derogatory term. A lot of (non-derogatory) terms including Arab, Pakistani, Muslim, etc have been and are used that way. So we should stop using all those too?

The term to me means Pakistani. It means cleanliness and purity (in Urdu). And we call Pakistan the land of the pure. I’m hereby reclaiming the term as a Pakistani citizen. It’s ours. We decide what we want it to mean. And if someone finds our existence offensive, well good, I’m a Paki and they can keep of fuming for the rest of their lives.

By: Kiran

Kiran — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 20:28:20 +0000

Aftab, thankyou so much for the reference. It was really kind of you to correct me and clear the confusions.