George Fulton decides to say goodbye to Pakistan

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George Fulton decides to say goodbye to Pakistan

Farooq Aqdas
Tuesday, March 08, 2011

ISLAMABAD: George Fulton, a British journalist who earned public acclaim for participating in Geo TV programme ‘George Ka Pakistan’, settled in Pakistan and married a lady journalist in Karachi after securing Pakistani nationality, has ultimately decided to leave the country.

Fulton has decided to say goodbye due to extremism prevailing in the country. He said he was trapped in an uneven relation for the last many years. “I developed a relationship with Pakistan unexpectedly due to a show of Geo TV. Later this relation became an emotional attachment,” George added. He said he had been blinded by love of Pakistan, and could see its shortcomings. George Fulton had originally planned a three-month stay in the country during which he was to adjust in the local society. His performance was superb in accordance with the theme given to him and in his broken Urdu he was able to communicate with the masses.

It was the popularity and immense love that he gained amongst his audience that he decided to settle in the country. In a gathering the then prime minister Shaukat Aziz had granted him Pakistani nationality due to his popularity among the masses. George Fulton had responded the prime minister with thanks and declared that from now on he was a Pakistani.

But after nine years he had decided to leave the country and within a couple of days he will shift from the country. He says that he was leaving the country because it is close to becoming an unsuccessful state. It is full of extremism and Muslims are being killed not by Hindus, by Muslims. He says Pakistan was his beloved, and now he is going to another country to leave his darling behind. I have not mourned the killing of Salman Taseer because I never knew him. I mourn that enlightened Pakistan is being killed.


George Fulton decides to say goodbye to Pakistan