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  • Fluent in English, Panjabi, Punjabi, Urdu; learning Hindi
  • 37, Male
  • Member since 2012
  • Researcher
  • Post Graduate in International Relations and Pursuing for...
  • From Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan
  • Profile 55% complete

About Me

CURRENT MISSION

Candidate towards PhD in International Relations.

ABOUT ME

I am talkative and friendly person who wants to explore the world by going to different places and knowing new ideas about life and making new friends. As borders divide people but I believe borders can not separate people by their hearts. I am holder of liberal and secular ideas believe in peace and harmony, believe in gender equality one can say am feminist that's what I am in brief.

PHILOSOPHY

I Want to make this world away from conflicts so that millions in Africa who died out of hunger can be saved. Nationalistic feelings destroys every thing and I want to end this stupid thing.

Interests

Anthropology, philology, Primitive History, History of Nationalism in different parts of the world.

  • politics
  • anthropology
  • history
  • international relations

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies :
Schindler's List, American History X, Pulp fiction, Shawshank Redemption, Slumdog Millionare, Amores Perros etc
Books :
Das Kapital ( I love to understand this book but its really hard have not finished it yet), Listening to the Grass hopper, shameful Flight, Jinnah of Pakistan, Partisans of Allah, Clash of Fundamentalism, The Invention of the Jewish People by Shlomo Sand, Our Oriental Heritage by Will Durant, Imagined Communities by Benedict Anderson etc

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Met an old man in Amsterdam who look like my grandfather so I started talking in Hindi and than came to know basically he was from Suriname and I didn't knew that country before and the tyranny of colonization.

Teach, Learn, Share

I can talk about the politics of South Asia as I am doing my research in International Relations. After world War 2, the greatest number of POW's were held in Indo-Pak war of 1971 which were 90,000. The south Asian region where more than a billion people live and this region is always involved in war and cross border infiltration between India and Pakistan. I can tell all this.

Countries I’ve Visited

France, Germany, Netherlands, Norway

Countries I’ve Lived In

Pakistan

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