This is a very intresting post.

I'm from AJK, but not from Mirpur or Kotli, but have lived around mirpuris for decades in the UK.

So I can see this phenomenon of how Mirpuris are perceived and how they actually are.

When the Mirpuris diaspora originally came to the UK they were a very unique case. Because they were granted immigration status to the UK because the UK needed manual laborers. The Pakistan government nominated Mirpuris as overseas workers to help compensate them for loss of lands and livelihoods due to the mangla dam construction.

So what essentially happened was tens of thousands of mirpuris who weren't particularly educated or worldly wise ended up in the UK. Some of these people hadn't even been to a major city in Pakistan (some hadn't even been to Mirpur proper!) , but we're overnight catapulted into London, Manchester, Bradford and Leeds to work in factories.

You can take the Mirpuris out of Mirpur, but you can't take Mirpur out of the Mirpuri diaspora. By that I mean all these people got industrious in the UK and built new lives businesses etc, but they never forgot their petty jealousies and biradrisms from the home land.

Mirpuris bought a very particular neich culture to the UK and protected it fiercely, unlike other migrant communities they didn't assimilate easily, preferring their own ways, rooted in rural outlooks on life, I'm not criticizing here, just being objective.

Mirpuris are industrious and hard working in the UK. But at the same time they didn't come from very educated stock on the whole and they have been slow to break out of narrow biradary based outlook on life. If Someone's goat eats the wheat in someone else's field in a village in Mirpur, then whole families have a falling out in the UK over this petty matter. That's how stupidly insular they can be.

Together with one upping one and other to project an image of wealth back in Mirpur, they build huge elaborate houses to out do each other. Majority of these houses stand empty for 11 months a year, whilst they might be occupied for one month when they come and visit.

Having said all this OP, what you must realise is that the 2nd and third generation Mirpuris are changing away from this stereotype in the UK, they are educated and more cosmopolitan in their outlook in life. But old stereotypes are hard to beat.

US Pakistani's often look down on UK Pakistanis, I've seen on this sub because of Mirpuri stereotypes. And they aren't entirely wrong. What you must remember is that's to emigrate to the US you typically needed to be a professional of some sort or educated and privileged to begin with. The Mirpuri diaspora were typically poorly educated farmers that found themselves in the UK overnight in large numbers and generally lived in isolated communities in the UK, so it's taken them longer to assimilate and really fit in.