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Another British Asian businessman killed in Pakistan. BTW the gun laws there are about the same as USA, every angry man who can afford a gun has one!

BBC News – Bury family ‘shocked’ at murder of man shot in Pakistan

since I wrote this my mum has returned to Blighty, she now stays in our old family house in Reading where she feels safer….

According to feds (both Pakistan cops and GMP!) the prime suspects are some of his own family, who he suspected of stealing assets from the business and was taking legal action against..

BBC News – ‘Family killed’ Tariq Hafeez in Pakistan, say police

this is what I meant about rich people never being able to properly enjoy their wealth or their lives when others percieve an inequality – bear in mind to those in PK he would have been viewed as like a millionaire businessman..

TBH if this is how folk from ancestral countries treat British Asians they would be better off staying in the UK. Even Bolton is safer these days!

@harr!et 435348 wrote:

i didn’t ever think that people lashed out against rich people simply for being rich, it doesn’t really happen here does it? [/quote]

It does particularly in cities but to be fair even with todays British society there isn’t quite as much inequality. In the mid 1990s there was a spate of rich people in London being badly mugged/done over and thats why a lot of them have good CCTV and gated buildings etc and pay for close protection (minders).

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it’s sad when greed ruins people and they do something so horrible to anyone, let alone their own family. i thought pakistan was more of a collectivist culture where family is generally valued more.

The whole of Asia from the bits of the old Soviet Union all the way to China is like that with famly values but it works both ways, when families disagree and fight it can get very acrimonious indeed. I’ve even seen it with my extended family, of course its not gone as far as lethal violence but some bits of it don’t talk to one another…