An expatriate’s View
Dr.Afzal Mirza states that the Author of this work,a Pakistani long settled in japan,has done a commendable job in presenting some solutions to the problems facing us from his peculiar perspective.
LOOKING AT PAKISTAN FROM JAPANESE PERSPECTIV

Dr. Afzal Mirza

I was keen to read this book because it reminded me of my visit to Japan in 1981. It was for me a bewildering experience. After having visited America and Europe it was the most impressive dispensation in the world. It overtook me rather it overawed me with its colossal
development. It was an example of how nations with limited space and resources could undertake super-human leaps towards progress. A sense of discipline was writ large on every thing. I always remembered that Japanese experience till those impressions were washed out by the routine of living in Pakistan with its objective conditions. Another reason for going through this book was my kin
S .Sikandar Khan, a scholar of Japanese history and culture who keeps on posting me with his articles on his Japanese experience and with news about Japanese Universities Alumni Association of Pakistan of which he is the Vice President. This keeps me in touch with the reality of Japan in this world.
The present book is neither an autobiography nor a travelogue but the impressions of a Pakistani living in Japan about the state of affairs in this country. The author Humayun Mughal hails from Rawalpindi. After taking diploma in Japanese language from the Foreign Languages Institute of Islamabad he left for Japan in 1985 where he joined Univerty in Tokyo for higher studies in Japanese language. There he met a Japanese girl the whom he married after converting her to Islam. He has four sons and a daughter and the pictures of the family adorn the book. After completing his education Humayun stayed on there and started business in carpets. Now he owns a show room in Japan and also works for newspapers and television as commentator. Last time he visited Pakistan was in November last year. General Musharaff had taken over the reins of the government on 12th October so every one in Japan and Pakistan was keen to know his views on the military take-over. It seems that instead of giving his comments individually to the people whom he came across he wrote a whole book on the subject.
The book Let me come to Pakistan opens with a picture of General Musharaff under which he writes, Dr.Iqbal