Trip to Pakistan Challenges and Solutions
During my recent visit to Pakistan (Lahore), I went to the neighborhood where I grew up. I was so happy to see how it has changed over the last 25 years. When I was growing up, most residents in these apartments had a bicycle. A few owned motorcycles. Air conditioning had not arrived. I was pleasantly surprised to see that some residents in these apartments now owned a car and almost every household had a motorcycle and AC. If I were to compare my life the way it was 25 years ago with the present, I see a big change. We are five brothers who grew up in a 2 bedroom apartment. I don’t know the size of the rooms, but the rooms were so small that every night we had to put an extra bed inside to sleep which we stowed away during the day to create enough space to walk in the room. My father owned a bicycle that he used to go to his three jobs ( I won’t go into details because this is not about my father or me ). We did not have a proper kitchen in our apartmen...