Humans of NewYork Is In Pakistan

[NaNoW]

This thread will be move to photography section in a couple of days

Humans of New York
@opethian..can you keep the thread updated with all the photos that will be coming in the days and their stories and manage this thread pls

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Continuing in the tradition of last summer, I’m going to be travelling during the month of August and posting stories from overseas. Only this time I’ll be visiting two countries instead of trying to span the world, because that was exhausting, and it also caused my poor senile dog to forget my existence. The first stop is Pakistan. Hope you enjoy.

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“One beautiful thing about advocating for the poor is that feminist ideals are advanced naturally. In order to fight eviction from their homes, women whose patriarchy has kept them secluded have been allowed to emerge into public life. Their husbands have been forced to choose their homes over their idea of honor. Even within my organization, the patriarchy is being broken down. Energetic young females are beginning to share influence with older male members. When you’re in a tough fight for a common cause, you can’t afford to be choosy about where the best ideas are coming from.”

"It’s a difficult time to be a socialist. The left has been depleted everywhere else, but in Pakistan it’s been decimated. I belong to an organization called the Awami Worker’s Party, and right now is a crucial moment for us. We are trying to resist slum evictions in Islamabad. There is no affordable housing in the city, so servants and laborers huddle together in informal settlements called kachi abadis, which have no water or electricity. Recently, the Islamabad high court has issued an eviction notice, and the land is being sold out beneath them. They are defending their actions by saying that terrorists hide in the slums. Right now an operation is underway to remove the slum inhabitants by force."





(Hunza Valley, Pakistan)

"When I'm bored, I call up Radio Pakistan and request a song, then I start dancing. I'll even dance on a rainy day. It's my way of expressing how grateful I am. I am the happiest man in Pakistan."

(Passu, Pakistan)

"When I was working on my doctorate, I discovered on the last day that my thesis was ten pages short, and he left his own office to run whatever errands I needed. He didn't even have a car. He took a rickshaw. I had a dream when I was deciding whether or not to marry him. I was falling through the air, but I didn't feel any fear, because I knew that he would catch me."

(Hunza Valley, Pakistan)

Today in microfashion....

(Hunza Valley, Pakistan)

Matt Tucker These guys look like they're about to drop the hottest rap album of 2015.

"I want to be a chef."

"What's the best part about being a chef?"
"You can make your own dessert."
(Hunza Valley, Pakistan)

"What's your favorite thing about your sister?"

"Her happiness."
(Hunza Valley, Pakistan)

“I wanted to be a singer. I loved music. I practiced all the time and worked on writing songs for myself. I loved sad songs especially. But the community put so much pressure on my mother. My father passed away when I was twelve. And everyone kept telling my mother that a girl could not be something like a singer without her father’s permission. My father wouldn’t have minded. He was always so supportive of me. But my mom was so worried about what people would think. She begged me to stop. She grew so nervous that I finally told her, ‘It's OK, Mom. I’ll stop.’ Now I just listen to music. It’s too sad for me to sing anymore.”

(Hunza Valley, Pakistan)

"There were no paved roads here when I was a boy. We had to walk for 3 days to get to places that only take 2 hours now. There was never any money for school. We had no wealth or property. Beginning at six years old, I cleaned dishes at a restaurant until 9 pm. Then I would go to sleep and start again. All my money went to my parents. I'd hear stories about cities and airplanes, but they seemed like fairy tales. I'd dream of visiting these places, but before I could g...

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"I grew up in the village behind me. It's very beautiful here but there are few opportunities. Whenever I think about my children's prospects, I grow sad. I have nothing to provide for them so they'll probably end up like me, taking whatever work they can just to survive. My parents died when I was ten. I went to live with my aunt and my uncle. They never gave me grief. They never made me feel bad. But they were also poor, and every time we sat down to eat, I felt like I was stealing from their family. The guilt grew so bad that when I turned 15, I tried to build a shed for myself. I lived there for about six months. But then the winter came. And eventually the cold grew stronger than the guilt."
(Hunza Valley, Pakistan)









"What's your goat's name?"
"Goat."
(Hunza Valley, Pakistan)







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“The most important thing about swimming is to not be afraid.”“What advice do you have for people who are afraid?”“Just don’t be afraid. Or you’ll drown.”(Hunza Valley, Pakistan)​

 

[opethian]

@NaNoW yea sure i will try, im on my way back from a trip of Skardu n Deosai. Will start updating this thread from tomorrow

 

[crazyhassan]

@NaNoW yea sure i will try, im on my way back from a trip of Skardu n Deosai. Will start updating this thread from tomorrow

hows skardu? i miss my home town

 

[RAJNI]

WONDERFUL effort and absolutely BREATHTAKING photography

its kinda HARD for mee self to even BELIEVE this is PAKISTAN

LEKIN - Iss Mein NEW YORK Kahaaaan Hai ???

Mein Nay to NEW YORK Parh Kar CLICK kiyaaa Thaaaa ...



Again ONE MORE Miss-leading

Yeh NANGAY PUNGAY Bachay DEKH kar Mein KIAAA KAraooon :giveup:

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“I fell in love with the first girl I dated. Then one day she told me: ‘If you were a boy, this would be perfect.’”

WoW NOW this is SIZZLING - GARMI Mein NARMI - Hot Summer OOPER say YEH Bhi HOT

 

[TheCelestial]

This is amazing! Some of these stories literally made me shed a tear. Beautiful!

 

[RameeX]

"What's your goat's name?"
"Goat."

^LOL

 

[Khawaja]

@NaNoW I follow HONY, I don't mind keeping it updated. It's a part of my routine to check out HONY these days.

Brandon is doing a splendid job, the guy has 14m likes on Facebook and is showing the true face of Pakistan to everyone. People from other nations think that we are some very backward country with no technology or food and only terrorism. However, from the comments I read on Facebook it is made clear that people are amazed by the heart warming stories and the beauty of both people and nature in Pakistan. Below I have attached a few screenshots from the time when Brandon announced he was going to Pakistan and people who had been here commented:

Education changed the lives of my entire family. Before education, we knew only how to work. It was always very quiet in our home. My grandfather was a laborer, but he paid to send my father to a tutor so that he could learn to read. He told my father that, if nothing else, he should begin by learning how to read and write his name. When I was born, my father taught me how to read. I started with local newspapers. I learned that our village was part of a country. Then I moved on to books. And I learned that there was an entire world around this mountain. I learned about human rights. Now I’m studying political science at the local university. I want to be a teacher.”
(Hunza Valley, Pakistan)

“I admired her from afar for a while, and eventually summed up the courage to tell her my feelings. She told me that she felt the same way. This was before cell phones, so at first our meetings were limited to random interactions on the street. But then we both got mobiles and started talking on the phone. Eventually she told me that she wanted to marry me. I sent my mother to ask her family for permission, but they didn’t think I was a suitable match. They were a higher class of people. They were educated. Her father was a business owner. I tried to plead with them: ‘I’m not paralyzed,’ I told them. ‘I work. Why am I not good enough?’ But I was never given an answer.”

(Hunza Valley, Pakistan)

 

[HAMMER of THOR]

it is a great effort by humans of new york... but i am not impressed with many who post there for likes... simply say heart breaking and quote from the post and bam...thousands of likes in minutes... some comments are great but mostly people just post there for likes or say "oh look... how good i am to feel sad about this subject"... very blatant and fake posts...

 

[Ali Man]

it is a great effort by humans of new york... but i am not impressed with many who post there for likes... simply say heart breaking and quote from the post and bam...thousands of likes in minutes... some comments are great but mostly people just post there for likes or say "oh look... how good i am to feel sad about this subject"... very blatant and fake posts...

It's one thing that American's are this stupid, and it's another thing that now the paki's are copying them on that page.


Bottom line is that it shouldn't take pictures from such a page to make people 'this surprised' or 'astonished' as if they were living under a rock this whole freakin time.

Pakistan was always beautiful, that hasn't changed for a while. And they're blaming the media for all the ridiculousness, as if they don't have a choice for not believing every dam thing they hear in the first place.

 

[cobby]

Does this guy only visits beautiful places like mountains etc , or goes to large cities as well ,
i was expecting pics from Peshawar , Lahore , khi and Quetta

 

[GloriousChicken]

It's one thing that American's are this stupid, and it's another thing that now the paki's are copying them on that page.


Bottom line is that it shouldn't take pictures from such a page to make people 'this surprised' or 'astonished' as if they were living under a rock this whole freakin time.

Pakistan was always beautiful, that hasn't changed for a while. And they're blaming the media for all the ridiculousness, as if they don't have a choice for not believing every dam thing they hear in the first place.

Right on Alima!

 

[Ottoman]

Thank you HoNY for showing us that Humans exist in Pakistan. We thought it was a dinosaur country with gun-toting Pachysaurus' and Talib-Rex's roaming the land terrorizing other reptilian species.

 

[Deadly Shadow]

Bottom line is that it shouldn't take pictures from such a page to make people 'this surprised' or 'astonished' as if they were living under a rock this whole freakin time.

Pakistan was always beautiful, that hasn't changed for a while. And they're blaming the media for all the ridiculousness, as if they don't have a choice for not believing every dam thing they hear in the first place.

Are you talking about foreigners or Pakistanis themselves being surprised? If it is the latter, I kind of agree with you. But if you are talking about foreigners being surprised or astonished/living under a rock..I don't agree with you.

You see people are surprised because the vast majority of time Pakistan comes in international media it is unfortunately for something negative. From high murder rates to people dying on K2 and everything in between. This leads to stereotyping and generalizing an entire nation. I am tahnkful to Brandon and his project for actually creating a postive image for Pakistan. And when the international audience looks at this they are surprised because what the media shows is a "war-torn country"

This is comparable to the international and Pakistani mindset towards the African continent.

A lot of people perceive Africa as just one nation facing HIV/AIDS/ebola with extreme crime and also war-torn. People think all Africans look alike (dark skin, flat noses, big lips and dry hair) and we tend to ignore the fact that Kenya, Nigeria, Senegal etc are not the same thing but are actually different countries with their respective cultures. So I wouldn't be surprised if HONY goes to Kenya and people are "surprised" to find it a beautiful country with a nice and diverse population just like Pakistan/rest of the world. Which is the purpose of this blog. Humans are Humans.