I have lost count of how many times I am 'shamed' for sitting outside Pakistan and criticizing Pakistan, both by the fanatic-Patriots and liberals. Kamran Asdar Ali once gave a befitting answer to a Pakistani academic rambling at diaspora: "There are diasporas outside Pakistan

and there are diasporas inside Pakistan." We know the politics and views of Pakistani diaspora are problematic but the 'diasporas inside Pakistan' puts to shame any level of cringe. Also, why is that being outside Pakistan is all the privilege which disqualifies you from talking

about Pakistan? My father was a concrete-mixer driver in UAE till a year and a half ago. Is he a diaspora? Or is his son who was educated through hardships and sweet? Why is that I sitting outside make me privileged while my family is living hand to mouth and you with all your

generational wealth and living in gated communities are not because you are doing Ihsan to us for living in Pakistan? Some of us have no other option but to be a 'diaspora'. I have a PhD in electrical engineering but I am a chronic stammerer. I don't feel confident to teach.

Also, I can't afford to have a payless month. Given my politics, views and my social location can anyone guarantee me a job security there even if I put aside my stammering and start to teach? I feel homeless and uprooted outside my home (my home is Pakhtunkhwa). But what option

I have? That's how the middle class work in some ways. We have spent our lives without our fathers because they were laborers in Gulf and now they have to spend their last years because their children are making lives of their hard work outside. -end-

*to spend their last years alone