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.

A mess. It's really bad. Things are bad, work is scarce.

We don't have money, nor do they. They can't. They have no work to earn.

It gets less. If they have money, they'll give it to the kids, They'll buy the children things.

They'll buy something, or not, here... We used to do this in Pakistan.

How was it in Pakistan? Life was easier in Pakistan.

Like here, where adults get cash, there, they'd give the children spending money.

Even Pakistan has a bad name, though. It has a bad name, too.

By God, Pakistan is full of lentil-eaters. Lentil-eaters.

It has people, human beings, who regard their country with humanity, who regard people with humanity.

Here, people have no value, absolutely none in you.

With respect, it would be good. Work wouldn't be so bad.

Friend, I haven't lived in Pakistan, and some people who come from Pakistan say, “I'm going back to Pakistan.”

I ask, “Why leave?” He says, “Buddy…” “I’ve only seen Pakistan once,” or twice, for ten rupees.

Pakistan is completely different, he says.

No, he says, speak like that. He says there’s a lot of work, and people treat you like a human being.

They treat you humanely. I was here too, before, during the republic. I was in Urdu.

I worked there. But there, I thought, “I’ll spend these four years there.”

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 …

but they treated me lawfully. Here, things are just a mess, it’s …, and they say ten.

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.

Work comes tomorrow; we go around saying no work for 100 or 200 rupees.

All right. A hundred rupees. How can anyone stay here?

Now I'm wondering, which way should I go? I'm on my way.

Pakistan has shut down too. Pakistan is fully shut.

Iran isn't issuing visas now either. Ah, but my dream…