Trailing End of the Middle Class at Shaadi Online

dear raza,
you say in your article:
``In all, for the first time I saw “people”, our people, regular folks trying to make a living, trying to improve their condition and while doing all that, having some fun``.

7.96 of 1000 people in pakistan use the internet. of these it is safe to assume a sizable chunk belongs to upper class people. what brought you to the absurd conclusion that OUR PEOPLE, REGULAR PEOPLE are going to these online shows and doing all this when only 8 out a thousand peolpe have access to the internet and out of those 8 atleast 3 are the upper class. our regular folk are living in the village milking cows and breaking their backs for the rich corrupt land lords most of who cant even spell internet let alone use it.

the folk that show up on this website and other sites like it are not a representative group. you and i are not a representative group. open the local pages of Dawn and you`ll find people committing suicide and killing their families because they cant feed themselves. You`ll read about poeple in villages killing their women in the name of honor with no regard for laws. you will read about nameless faceless people dying left and right due to hunger or the extreme heat, or because they drank bad water or something or this sort. these people come closer to the Regular folk you talk of. you see a few corollas rollin around in karachi and paved roads in lahore and you conviniently forget to look at the shanty towns down the road. you see a woman advertise herself on shaadi online and say hey, shes all modern and confident and you forget that so many more women just like her have to advertise and sell their bodies everyday just to have sometihng to eat.

dont insult your country by judging its soundness by an internet portal and the eight of a thousand people who can use the internet. a lot more needs to be done to bring pakistan to its rightful and achievable glory than having people married online and, as a result, having more mouths to feed in a country already starving, and more thirsts to quench in a country already lacking clean water and more people to employ in a country already devoid of decent employment. if you live abroad, sending some money home will work way more wonders than surfing the internet.

i think ur argument is soooooooooo RIGHT!! i agree with u 100%....but then again the ppl who read these articles..or check these websites..r from them 7.96 % ..who believe that EVERY1 is doing the same..rather than using there intelligence they r ignorant of the fact that ppl out there r not so lucky like them...they not only dont seem to care..they really do not know...