# Unemployment and a Comparison of Working Life in Pakistan - Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2120796240916980080 - Source account: [@hasankhyber](https://x.com/hasankhyber) - Source language: Persian - Target language: English - Duration: 1:58 - Published: 2026-11-12 - Machine translated. Check the original before quoting. - Canonical URL: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/WHtu3qwyTrY8/en/unemployment-and-a-comparison-of-working-life-in-pakistan - Original-language version: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/WHtu3qwyTrY8/fa/%D8%A8%DB%8C%DA%A9%D8%A7%D8%B1%DB%8C-%D9%88-%D9%85%D9%82%D8%A7%DB%8C%D8%B3%D9%87-%D8%B4%D8%B1%D8%A7%DB%8C%D8%B7-%DA%A9%D8%A7%D8%B1-%D9%88-%D8%B2%D9%86%D8%AF%DA%AF%DB%8C-%D8%A8%D8%A7-%D9%BE%D8%A7%DA%A9%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%86.md ## Transcript [0:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/WHtu3qwyTrY8/en/unemployment-and-a-comparison-of-working-life-in-pakistan) How's the market? Is it good or not? By God, the market is a mess, so there's no work. [0:05](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/WHtu3qwyTrY8/en/unemployment-and-a-comparison-of-working-life-in-pakistan?t=5) A mess. It's really bad. Things are bad, work is scarce. [0:09](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/WHtu3qwyTrY8/en/unemployment-and-a-comparison-of-working-life-in-pakistan?t=9) We don't have money, nor do they. They can't. They have no work to earn. [0:12](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/WHtu3qwyTrY8/en/unemployment-and-a-comparison-of-working-life-in-pakistan?t=12) It gets less. If they have money, they'll give it to the kids, They'll buy the children things. [0:16](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/WHtu3qwyTrY8/en/unemployment-and-a-comparison-of-working-life-in-pakistan?t=16) They'll buy something, or not, here... We used to do this in Pakistan. [0:21](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/WHtu3qwyTrY8/en/unemployment-and-a-comparison-of-working-life-in-pakistan?t=21) How was it in Pakistan? Life was easier in Pakistan. [0:23](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/WHtu3qwyTrY8/en/unemployment-and-a-comparison-of-working-life-in-pakistan?t=23) Like here, where adults get cash, there, they'd give the children spending money. [0:27](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/WHtu3qwyTrY8/en/unemployment-and-a-comparison-of-working-life-in-pakistan?t=27) Even Pakistan has a bad name, though. It has a bad name, too. [0:31](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/WHtu3qwyTrY8/en/unemployment-and-a-comparison-of-working-life-in-pakistan?t=31) By God, Pakistan is full of lentil-eaters. Lentil-eaters. [0:33](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/WHtu3qwyTrY8/en/unemployment-and-a-comparison-of-working-life-in-pakistan?t=33) It has people, human beings, who regard their country with humanity, who regard people with humanity. [0:40](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/WHtu3qwyTrY8/en/unemployment-and-a-comparison-of-working-life-in-pakistan?t=40) Here, people have no value, absolutely none in you. [0:44](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/WHtu3qwyTrY8/en/unemployment-and-a-comparison-of-working-life-in-pakistan?t=44) With respect, it would be good. Work wouldn't be so bad. [0:47](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/WHtu3qwyTrY8/en/unemployment-and-a-comparison-of-working-life-in-pakistan?t=47) Friend, I haven't lived in Pakistan, and some people who come from Pakistan say, “I'm going back to Pakistan.” [0:53](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/WHtu3qwyTrY8/en/unemployment-and-a-comparison-of-working-life-in-pakistan?t=53) I ask, “Why leave?” He says, “Buddy…” “I’ve only seen Pakistan once,” or twice, for ten rupees. [0:58](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/WHtu3qwyTrY8/en/unemployment-and-a-comparison-of-working-life-in-pakistan?t=58) Pakistan is completely different, he says. [1:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/WHtu3qwyTrY8/en/unemployment-and-a-comparison-of-working-life-in-pakistan?t=60) No, he says, speak like that. He says there’s a lot of work, and people treat you like a human being. [1:06](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/WHtu3qwyTrY8/en/unemployment-and-a-comparison-of-working-life-in-pakistan?t=66) They treat you humanely. I was here too, before, during the republic. I was in Urdu. [1:11](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/WHtu3qwyTrY8/en/unemployment-and-a-comparison-of-working-life-in-pakistan?t=71) I worked there. But there, I thought, “I’ll spend these four years there.” [1:16](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/WHtu3qwyTrY8/en/unemployment-and-a-comparison-of-working-life-in-pakistan?t=76) I wondered how I’d get through them. But up to today, the police have come to me, and took me to the law in a … [1:23](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/WHtu3qwyTrY8/en/unemployment-and-a-comparison-of-working-life-in-pakistan?t=83) but they treated me lawfully. Here, things are just a mess, it’s …, and they say ten. [1:30](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/WHtu3qwyTrY8/en/unemployment-and-a-comparison-of-working-life-in-pakistan?t=90) That doesn't happen there. People earn their own wages. I was a laborer, I earned my own wages, with dignity, and everyone walked around with humanity. [1:39](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/WHtu3qwyTrY8/en/unemployment-and-a-comparison-of-working-life-in-pakistan?t=99) Work comes tomorrow; we go around saying no work for 100 or 200 rupees. [1:44](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/WHtu3qwyTrY8/en/unemployment-and-a-comparison-of-working-life-in-pakistan?t=104) All right. A hundred rupees. How can anyone stay here? [1:49](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/WHtu3qwyTrY8/en/unemployment-and-a-comparison-of-working-life-in-pakistan?t=109) Now I'm wondering, which way should I go? I'm on my way. [1:52](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/WHtu3qwyTrY8/en/unemployment-and-a-comparison-of-working-life-in-pakistan?t=112) Pakistan has shut down too. Pakistan is fully shut. [1:55](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/WHtu3qwyTrY8/en/unemployment-and-a-comparison-of-working-life-in-pakistan?t=115) Iran isn't issuing visas now either. Ah, but my dream…