The Pakistani View

I just read an opinion piece by a Pakistani expatriate living in Qatar. It's a well-written attempt to answer the question "Why Pakistanis refuse to accept the truth and instead believe in wild conspiracy theories."

The article by Nzaar Ihsan is from the Christian Science Monitor and appears inYahoo News. Its substance is that Pakistanis were lied to for the entire period since 1948 and therefore believed a completely different version of their nation's history than is understood by the rest of the world.

Now the Internet and other sources of unfiltered information have them trying to grasp what really happened, and it isn't pretty. Conspiracy theories are easier to tolerate than the disappointing truth.