Behind our backs, world travelers are using Pakistan's unfrequented North as a pretty comfort couch while badmouthing & resenting the rest of Pakistan... without going in depth about our crises and issues that require an extensive attention and compassionate intersectional look.

So I called this kind lady traveler out. The casual disregard that the hedonistic, escape-seeking mostly-Western travelers flick towards "South Pakistan" is chilling in its disrespect and almost unintentional but certain cruel outcome. (See next).
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Continued from previous.
Travelers who are causing a schism between "North and South Pakistan" are doing great disservice to "both", AND objectifying the people of the North by forcing them to act as prize catches in a trophy hunt.
One byproduct of this "playing favorites" in the house of Pakistan by our honorable guests who often enjoy near complete laissez-faire as the colonial-minded us sit around is the entrapment of mountain people in the objectified hero roles... and it prevents them from having
presenting and solving their human issues.... which ALL of us have. A scanning of White narratives shows the Whites exchanging whispers and rumors that soldify this hypothetical divide; a quiet reinforcement of prejudices and bias whereas the 'hero' North is also all-too-human.
North Pakistan has severe problems of unemployment, drugs, suicide, depression and now also rape & murder & pedophilia. All sorts of depravity is on the rise. But you cannot speak openly about it as either Northern-or-elsewhere Pakistani.

It upsets some people's #tourism plans.
Fuck #tourism.
Take care of true, wholistic, authentic, engaged #development first... and prosperity will come.

What do you want, after all? Mindless footfall in ecologically sensitive regions... or prosperity?

Make prosperity the endgame!
Running around to earn Pakistan money in the short-term by compromising and shortselling the long-term development of our people is cowardice, prostitution, a sell-out.
And SHAME too on those Pakistanis from across Pakistan, esp the hedonistic-nihilistic urban centers, who are ALSO using our sensitive ecological areas as just-pretty backgrounds for vain and hellacious Instagram and TikTok productions. This is not your ego's studio and bazaar! 😠
Don't turn these areas into bloody prostitution-and-drug-dealing centers!! 😠😠😡

((Same issues apparently erupting across the border in India and elsewhere in #SAARC such #Bhutan. TOGETHER we need to battle this insanity and plundering.))
Tech giants are banning so much right now. If today they make Internet text-only, this wholescale degradation and RAPE of Earth's natural resources, exploitation of its indigenous and ALL people, spin of true narratives will HALT to a huge degree!!
#MakeInternetPhotoFreeAgain

Or whatever. Salaam.
Rant over. For now.
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I'll bite, Mr. Gray. We can even play by your rather finicky rules.

Let's begin with some of the things you have said about Xinjiang, notably absent from your more recent media appearances, but still present in your blog about your 2014 biking trip.


The following is taken from an ongoing list I keep of people who have been to Xinjiang and written/spoken about their experiences. It is separate from the testimony of detainees and their relatives I also keep. Jerry is on this

Jerry, your article for CGTN, as well as your various Medium pieces, belabor themselves to emphasize the smoothness of your time in Xinjiang. Why did you leave out so many details from your log of your 2014 trip? They seem relevant.

For example, would CGTN not let you speak about Shanshan, the town that evidently disturbed you so much?


Why, pray tell, after noting how kind and hospitable Xinjiang police were to you in 2019 for CGTN—and how you were never told where you could or could not go—would you omit these details?

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