By Hayi Mansoor
Those who live within a village in Pakistan must undertake a number of rigorous chores. The women in a village do not cook with a stove heated by gas or electricity. They must rely on kerosene to start the fires that they use while cooking. If a woman needs to have a number of dishes cooking at once, she needs to prepare a line of kerosene fires.
When a woman in a village needs to do the laundry, she can not throw things in a washing machine. She can not even find a Laundromat there in the village. She must wash her family's clothes along the banks of the nearest river.
A village in Pakistan can not supply each home with either electricity or running water. When a woman needs water for cooking, she must travel to a river or well. Then she must fill a container with water and carry it home, where she can put it to use. When she wants to clean her home, she can not use a vacuum; she must rely on a broom.
Lacking running water, homes and business in the village do not have indoor plumbing. When nature calls, the residents of the village must use an outhouse. Sometimes, a row of businesses might share a single outhouse. This can make for some amusing scenes.
Within a small village, any business can become like a water cooler at large business. Many men gather to talk at selected businesses in the village. They think nothing about carrying on their conversation while a man from an adjoining business walks past, carrying the vessel that shows his reason for by-passing the ongoing conversation.
Within the cities in Pakistan, one would never expect to witness such scene. A city in Pakistan often holds one of the country's universities. The presence of a university helps to bring added cultural elements into the cities of Pakistan. A university often has a museum. A university often has a choir or orchestra. And of course a university usually has a nice-sized library.
Frequently, some residents of a village choose to move to a city. They tend to make such a move for financial reasons. Families living in a city generally have servants. When poorer families move from a village to the city, then they know that they can find work. They often expect to work as servants or as drivers.
The students who enroll at the universities in the cities are not expected to work; they are expected to study. Some students take time out from their studies to take part in the occasional demonstration. Those are the students most often viewed by TV audiences on the other side of the world. Such students broadcast their own views, but not the views of all the villagers in Pakistan.
One can not yet predict how technological innovations could eventually manage to have an effect on every village in Pakistan. Such innovations could one day see the widespread use of cell phones and laptop computers in those small villages. Such changes would no doubt reshape the thinking of the villagers in Pakistan.
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