Exhausted these days from work and thinking about finance. It's quite a strange field in that there are a few axiomatic principles, and a whole lot of assumptions, which underpin the business. I find myself strangely attracted to the intensity and pursual of profit, not so much out of personal greed (I'm too low in the hierachy to share in the windfalls) but because in a way it encourages an intense drive towards greater efficiency.
As I read my weblog I feel that it's suffering from a distinct lack of opinions and it seems that I just find it very difficult to have opinions on daily issues, which was away just as soon as they appear. Over the past six months I had assumed that working as a 19yr old lent me a professionalism, which allowed me to transcend the trivilaity that plagues human life but going back to Pakistan proven me wrong.
The Pakistan I saw was one that would have been the envy of the world. The kids were young, spoilt and beautiful with nothing on their minds but how to spend their fortune and maximise their pleasure. It was a life that quite frankly lived up to the ideal as presented in American teen movies and I was quite frankly stunned by how open Pakistan had become. My own impression of Pakistan, prior to my visit after 5 yrs, was of a Islamicised nation with a fairly liberal elite but my experiences have now led me to believe otherwise.
I think my only problem with Pakistan was the lack of a sophisticated financial market to absorb it's best graduate and the general sentiment that only by settling in the West could only have a high powered career though the brilliant minds of the highly advanced telecommunications industry prove otherwise.
Pakistan has become a successful and dignified nation, with a pulse of it's own, which is why I no longer particularly care what the world now thinks of it because I believe that the Mohammed Ali Jinnah and his Muslim League have redeemed themselves in their quest to create a nation anchored in Islamic values. The trip to Pakistan has lent me the utmost faith in Musharraf and his leadership, a contentment about our national state of affairs that has also made me more amenable to peace with India.
Zachary Latif 00:04
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