For those born in Pakistan - is your official age correct?

[MenInG]

Seems that people in Pakistan have this issue about ages - ie they are not recorded correctly or changed for various reasons.

So if you were born in Pakistan - is your official age correct?

 

[Azzurri]

Yessss

 

[MenInG]

Yessss

Add your vote

 

[Pakpak]

Yes. But almost everyone apart from me has the wrong age

 

[Salman]

Yes. But almost everyone apart from me has the wrong age

I think it's not very common to get a child's birth date wrong for most working and middle class households in Pakistan since the 1980's

 

[Pakpak]

I think it's not very common to get a child's birth date wrong for most working and middle class households in Pakistan since the 1980's

Everyone in my family, apart from me and an odd cousin have their DOB a year or two younger.

 

[AFM]

Mine is correct but there are members of my extended family who have incorrect ages.

 

[Josh]

Parents also do it so that their children don't retire from govt jobs at their real 60, retirement age.

 

[shockbound]

I dont know. I got 2 different years written over birth docs and no one remembers my actual birth year.

 

[Syed1]

This might be a problem for people in the older/middle age demographics or those who had/have illiterate parents.


I think most people now get a proper NADRA birth certificate at birth and unless you tamper it purposefully to get a spot in the u19 side, for the most part birth dates should be accurate.

 

[Extra_Cover]

This although on face of it can be taken as a joke but can be a real problem for some in Pakistan.

A colleague of mine once told me that he is 1 year older than his official age. When I asked "why" he candidly replied that when he was born his uncle was registered his birth as a year older. This is because his uncle candidly replied years later that you'd obtain driving license much quicker this way.

I mean at that moment both me and my colleague were like the way a desi mind works is beyond at least our thought process.

 

[Badsha]

Yes and most people born in 90s are goof.

 

[Nostalgic]

Yes and most people born in 90s are goof.

They are indeed.

 

[Acricfan]

Yes, but is listed a day off. Me and my cousin were born on the same day, in the same house. He was born in the morning, and I was in the afternoon. So my dad decided that for some odd reason I would be listed as being born the next day.

 

[angrypathan]

Yes. In my direct family only my mother's is incorrect by a couple of years

 

[Saj]

What's the obsession with lying about your age?

 

[KingT]

What's the obsession with lying about your age?

Cricket wise it'll give you more opportunities as you'll potentially play 2-3 more years of u19 than you would have played if you had registered your real age.

 

[MenInG]

Think problem is that in Pakistan parents in certain times had a free hand to put in whatever age they liked.

So showing someone younger could allow him to work longer (age of retirement etc)

 

[Saj]

Cricket wise it'll give you more opportunities as you'll potentially play 2-3 more years of u19 than you would have played if you had registered your real age.

Well, I was referring to non-cricket really.

 

[KingT]

Well, I was referring to non-cricket really.

In that case, as MeninG has already said, they'll get to work for more years

 

[MenInG]

In that case, as MeninG has already said, they'll get to work for more years

Quiet why you want to work more years when you could retire early is beyond me

 

[Wiji]

The poll results are very surprising. It's likely there's a tendency not to admit that one's official age is untrue.

Nearly every single one of my relatives in Pakistan have had their age fudged, even those born in the 90s.

It doesn't help that the process to change your birth records is so straightforward.