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1994).Burden of colonial?" said Fratto,Another reason for concern is that the debate over the debt ceiling appears stuck on a Republican demand for big spending cuts in exchange for raising the $16. When an elected prime minister of the country stands inside the holy citadel of the parliament and claims treasonous moves against democracy and democratic institutions, He must act and order the removal of any elements that illegally challenge the legal writ of the state. I have gone mad and have started avoiding plastic bags as far as possible. Even a "tandoor wala" appreciated it when an offer for a bag was denied politely. And it??s a tough world out there too. At first everything was like a dream come true Staying up till four am in the morning during Orientation week wandering around the magnificent campus (I sometimes pretended I was at Hogwarts) walking by the lake eating like there is no tomorrow and actually shopping as if I really was living the life of Serena or Blair out of Gossip Girlwas like living in a blissful bubble of heaven However as the cold winter months kicked in I gradually started aching for the warmth and comfort of home my family and Karachi I never could have possibly imagined that I would miss all this Moreover I started becoming aware of a keen sense of identity and responsibility I couldn??t shop till I dropped here because frankly speaking my family was literally paying through their noses for my education here?The first awareness of this nagging sense of individual identity and responsibility came about when I was living in a dorm during my first year of University This was when I was exposed to people from all sorts of different cultures backgrounds and ethnicities Living in a gora town I was often asked amusing questions when people discoveredthat I??m from Pakistan The most famous one was ??How do you know how to speak English if you??re from Pakistan????Well?? I would explain ??I went to schools where the curriculum and the mode of instruction were all in English??This reply was usually met with confounded expressions and more questions such as: ??Why are your schools in English and not in your own native language????How is your English so good????How come you know all about the latest American television shows and movies??Initially I didn??t know how to properly answer such questions It would actually provoke me into anger and I wanted to simply shout out ??Hello I??m not from a primitive village and Pakistan does not thrive in the era of the Old Stone Age?? But when these questions were flung at me I started wondering These were some things I had never really thought about myself Why was my English better than my Urdu I wondered And getting angry was not thesolution either People were simply curious about what my country was like and my inability to answer their curious questions properly gave me an awareness of my identity and my country It was also very hard to explain that while the majority of Pakistanis are illiterate and poor there is an elite minority that knows how to speak English and everything about the western world Such gargantuan class inequalities are almost non-existent in the West It was also hard to explain to people that this was all the result of years of British colonialism which has left a lasting legacy and a deep imprint in India and Pakistan Contrary to what my friends in Karachi think and what I thought initially myself.