I am reading about the History of Cricket in Asia, and it seems that the came was first idtroduced to the natives by the Parsi community in British India, as they were first to ape the British.

Moving on, there are apparently 5000 odd Parsis in modern Pakistan, Karachi apparently. Can any one tell me how they are received by the majority Muslim population?

And who is the Parsi MP in Pakistan?

Thanks,

Me

Originally Posted by legbreakgoogly

I am reading about the History of Cricket in Asia, and it seems that the came was first idtroduced to the natives by the Parsi community in British India, as they were first to ape the British.

Moving on, there are apparently 5000 odd Parsis in modern Pakistan, Karachi apparently. Can any one tell me how they are received by the majority Muslim population?

And who is the Parsi MP in Pakistan?

Thanks,

Me

Parsis are very active community in Pakistan. They have several temples in different cities including Karachi and Lahore. They mind their business and nobody (so far) have created any trouble for them. Culturally most of the Parsis (personal experience) are very polite and polished. It is nice to have them in Pakistan.

Cool.

And Mr Bhandara MP is the Parsi member of parliament.

Any prominent Pakistani Parsis other then him?

Have you met one?

The Parsi community in Pakistan is one of the most educated communities in Pakistan. They run several good academic schools primarily in Karachi(Mama-Parsi, BVS etc). The community is very peaceful indeed, and has prodecued very noted intellectuals(Cowasjee being one them). As far as I know, they dont have any elected representatives in the Lower or Upper House.

I read that Bhandara was a Parsi.

Why are there so few parsies now when I was in school in the early 90s I remember that most of our teachers were parsies now there are hardly any left....What happened?

Originally Posted by Das Reich

Why are there so few parsies now when I was in school in the early 90s I remember that most of our teachers were parsies now there are hardly any left....What happened?

As far as I know, those Parsies are still in Karachi, leading a peaceful lives.

Bapsi Sidhwa is a well known Pakistani Parsi women(writer)...born in Quetta.....Behram D Avari,his wife & son are also famous...i think Bhandara is Parsi MP in assembly...he owns the Murree Brewery...

BVS & Mama Parsi are 2 famous Parsi schools in karachi:
http://www.alainco.org/bvs/history.htm

Didnt Aziz go to BVS?

Originally Posted by legbreakgoogly

Cool.

And Mr Bhandara MP is the Parsi member of parliament.

Any prominent Pakistani Parsis other then him?

Have you met one?

I met a prominent Parsi. Well rather, I walked past him at my brother's wedding. Ardeshir Cowasjee is a prominent Parsi journalist who one of the leading columnists for Dawn.

Originally Posted by legbreakgoogly

Didnt Aziz go to BVS?

He went to Saint Patricks.....

^^^

I can sleep peacefully knowing that.

^^good for u....

I read somewhere Qaud-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jannah became Parsi to marry Rutan Patit daughter of Dinsha Patit...before that he was Agha Khani...

Parsis are from Iran..

Parsis usually dont let people convert to their religion. Pakistan actually has a population of 20 000. It is declining though, most of the Pakistani Parsis left after partition. Many of them are converting and marrying out of the community.

Jinnah's wife was a Parsi, she nominally converted to Islam to marry J.

Never met a parsi in Pakistan that I know of, but I do know one who converted to Islam (only by name) in US. Not a very nice person. Lies alot.