HOW DID A NEW YORK WOMAN, STRANDED IN PAKISTAN, BECOME THE STAR OF A FOREIGN LAND?
How did a New York woman, stranded in Pakistan, become the star of the country?
Onijah Andrew Robinson has ambitious plans in Pakistan.
Months after the New York native found herself in the city of Karachi, where she has seemingly been homeless, she captivated online users with her bizarre comments about securing Pakistani citizenship as locals attempted to provide her with resources.
“My plan is to reconstruct this whole country,” Onijah said at a recent press conference alongside the founder of the Chhipa Welfare Association Razam Chhipa. “I am asking for $100K or more. I need $20K by this week in my pocket and cash. That’s a demand to the government.”
Although the 33-year-old—who says she arrived in Pakistan for a 19-year-old, who she alleged she began dating online—hasn’t shared how the money would be used, she simply noted, “The government is going to fix up these buildings, fix up the streets and clean up these streets.
As Onijah—whose conferences have gone viral on TikTok, Instagram and X (formerly known as Twitter)—put it, “It’s ridiculous out here. I do not like it.”
At other press conferences with Pakistani news outlets, she’s continued to push for financial support and real estate in the country.
“I’m not talking unless y’all giving me land and $2,000 or more every week,” she said. “You hear me? I’m getting my Pakistani passport and Pakistani ID.”
And when Onijah was asked where she was from? She replied, “I don’t live here, I’m chilling. It’s none of your business. Go home.”
Her brash attitude and eyebrow-raising one-liners have made her a viral sensation on social media, with one user on TikTok commenting, “I love how she doesn’t limit herself by adding ‘or more.’”
As others praised her unapologetic demands, another social media quipped on Instagram, “She bout to run the whole country!”
2RAW4TV has reached out to Qatar Airways, Sindh Governor Kamran Khan Tessori and the U.S. consulate in Karachi and has not heard back.
While Onijah has been quiet about her personal life, Razam did provide some insight into his non
profit’s efforts to help her.
“If she wants to stay, she can, if she wants to go, she can go,” he told UrduPoint. “It’s up to her. We are trying to get her to go back to her children and her home in America if she wants.”
Although she’s become a viral star online, Razam emphasized, “This is someone’s sister, this is someone’s daughter, this is someone’s mother.”
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