1. Make enough money outside of Pakistan and somehow invest it somewhere such that you keep on getting sufficient income to sustain your living in Pakistan. Now that your savings and bread and butter are secured, you are free to either do a Job or start a business in Pakistan. This is probably only possible in a retirement model. Before retirement age, rarely have I seen anybody achieve this state. This is not a plan to move back to Pakistan. This is a plan to retire in Pakistan.
2. Get a good job in Pakistan while sitting outside of Pakistan, and move back for that ‘good job’. Extremely difficult maneuver. Almost never happens.
3. Get a good job in Pakistan while sitting outside of Pakistan, take a vacation or a leave of absence from your expatriate Job, go to Pakistan, do this new job and then decide what to do.. Whether to move back for good or go back? Also a very tough maneuver… Most people go back after their vacation or when the leave of absence is over.
4. Come to Pakistan for a three to four week vacation. Look for a job and then decide what to do. First, it is not easy to find a good job to your standard in three to four weeks. Even if you are lucky enough to score this, the decision to move back to Pakistan is not about the job alone. It is a much more fundamental decision and hence has a lot of complexity to it. I have seen people secure dream jobs in three to four weeks, but still could not decide to move back to Pakistan at the end of that intense exercise. Serious mental preparation is required to move back to Pakistan. This is an extremely difficult plan.
5. Set up a business in Pakistan, while sitting outside, and once that business is profitable, then move back to Pakistan. People… This is not happening! This is one of the biggest myths!!
6. Do a deal with a friend who is starting a business in Pakistan, you invest and become a partner hoping that one day, via this business, you will move back to Pakistan. This is also not happening!! Give it up!
7. Set up a business in the US or where ever you are outside of Pakistan, then create justification for opening up a branch office in Pakistan of the same business, and then shuttling back and forth between those offices, hoping that one day this scheme will somehow help you move back to Pakistan for good. Although I have seen some success of this business model, it is a long and intense process. Not easy to pull off. People end up screwing the business or get stuck out of Pakistan since their business is based outside of Pakistan.
8. As long as you have good, faithful and many servants who have been employed by your family for a long time, your old parents will be taken care of in Pakistan by them. This is wrong…. In Pakistan, you cannot count on your servants to take care of your parents. Sooner or later, things go out of control. You should not leave old people at the mercy of servants, as long as their children are alive.
9. As long as you have good and many servants, the same kind mentioned in item 8, your mother can live alone in Pakistan. People, Pakistan is not a place for females to live alone. This is a very big NO….
