The few small real life successes that Pakis witness make them forget all their troubles, and it is truly something to behold. They also keep reproducing over 3 kids per couple in spite of an almost complete societal breakdown.
You have to give them credit for this type of perseverence, diabetics and inbreds notwithstanding.
The below author is biased, but there are some truths in her latest article:
All sorts of upheavals have created a national understanding that worrying at the individual level simply does not matter.
www.dawn.com