They love Imran Khan because they are unaware of the ground realities. They are not exposed to the damage that Imran and his party have done to this country. They are not internal stakeholders and the policies of the government does not directly impact them.
Furthermore, overseas Pakistanis also try to overcompensate because they are guilty and ashamed of deserting Pakistan.
As a result, they have to combat their insecurities and overcompensate by projecting their patriotism over the internet.
These people claim to support Imran, but they will not leave their comfort-zones to support him and only offer online support.
Actions speak louder than words - they will pretend that they love Pakistan, but the reality is that the only thing they love is their foreign passports.
If Pakistan scraps dual citizenship, these fake patriots will be exposed. If given a choice between their Pakistani citizenship and their foreign citizenship, they wouldn’t think twice before discarding the Pakistani citizenship.
Overseas Pakistanis, in particular overseas PTI supporters, have become a joke now. People in Pakistan don’t take them seriously and mock them for good reasons.
When you ask an overseas Pakistani, who is financially doing very well and more than stable to return to Pakistan and live a good life, why he doesn’t return to Pakistan if he pretends to love Pakistan so much, he will come up with a million excuses and explanations but he will not return to Pakistan.
Prior to 2018, they would say that we will only return to Pakistan if Pakistan is led by an honest leader.
However, how many returned to Pakistan when their messiah became the PM? None of them.
Even on this forum, how many overseas Pakistanis returned to settle in Pakistan in the last 5 years? None of them.
Speaking of overseas Pakistanis returning in 2018, it reminds me of this particular doctor in USA who got carried away with the euphoria and made a video, claiming that he is going to return to Pakistan and serve Naya Pakistan.
However, his is still in USA and working there. According to rumors, his wife and children thrashed him and brought him back to his senses after this video went viral, and then he had to take it down.
The loyalties of overseas Pakistanis is not with Pakistan; it is with the country that they are residing in.
However, if their loyalty is still with Pakistan even though they are living in a foreign country and have a foreign passport, then from the perspective of that foreign country, they are traitors (namak haraam) and do not deserve to live in that foreign country.
This is why the concept of dual nationality is dumb. You cannot be loyal to two countries at the same time, it is impossible. If they are ever forced to choose, their fake patriotism for Pakistan will be badly exposed.
Moreover, overseas Pakistanis talk a lot about remittance and how they are doing an “ehsaan” on the country by sending money. Well, it is important to address their delusions.
This remittance that they speak off mostly comes from the gulf states because the families of laborers and taxi drivers are living in destitute conditions in Pakistan so they have to send them money.
The percentage of the remittance from the western countries is actually quite low in comparison, since the families of such overseas Pakistanis are doing reasonably well and are not entirely dependent on their money.
Besides, remittance is only a first-generation thing. For example, if I leave Pakistan now and settle abroad, I might send money back home to my family.
However, my children who will be born abroad and grow up there, they are unlikely to send any money back to Pakistan 30-40 years from now, because they won’t have much affiliation or contact with their families in Pakistan.
There is also another critical point that overseas Pakistanis do not think about. Their decision to desert Pakistan has ensured that their future generations will have nothing to do with Pakistan and will fully immerse in the culture and society of their adopted countries.
So the overseas posters here who thump their chests and pretend that they are patriotic Pakistanis, well, after a generation or two, your descendants will not even identify with Pakistan.
You might be the first generation in your family to leave Pakistan or it might be that your parents did. In that scenario, you are likely to care about Pakistan and harbor patriotic sentiments.
However, your future generations will have no loyalty and patriotic feelings towards Pakistan; they will not identify with Pakistan and will probably not even visit and set foot on Pakistani soil in their lives.
Pakistan will just be a country from where their great grandfather and beyond etc. immigrated.
They will care about Pakistan as much as these Americans care about their European ancestry which basically means they won’t care at all.
So ask yourselves - what good is your patriotism towards Pakistan when you are ensuring that your future generations will completely abandon Pakistan?