Comment preview: I am a lawyer that is qualified from a university in the United Kingdom and I am currently doing humanitarian work in Pakistan. I help underprivileged under trial prisoners and religious minorities. Before you people start making assumptions about Sharia L ....

Comment preview: Lived in Pakistan. Experience: Pakistan is much more politically evolved when compared to countries like Egypt and Tunisia. Pakistan has been involved in multiple wars since its creation. It has been let down/left in the wilderness on multiple occasions by ....

Comment preview: Good? And how can you even make that comparison? Are you completely unaware of the geopolitical relationship between the USA and Pakistan? It's incredibly complicated.... *Edit: Oh for fuck's sake people, get your goddamn facts straight about what has been ....

Comment preview: I lived in Pakistan until I was ten years old. My memories are kind of blurry. But I remember some years we missed so much school due to strikes that we ended up either having a shortened summer, or had to go to school on saturdays to compensate. What we s ....

Comment preview: This is sad and heartbreaking.. I am an atheist living in Pakistan and I've to go through this bullshit everyday.. I study in a quite progressive university as compared to others so there's this made up sense of free speech here but I've received numerous ....

Comment preview: Pakistan has an awful habit of releasing terrorists... they did the same with one of the guys involved in the 26/11 attacks in Mumbai. They're especially lenient with terrorists that attack India, for obvious reasons. edit: so apparently the Islamabad High ....

Comment preview: I'm a Pakistani who lives in Pakistan and travels to the UK pretty often. The UK has some fucking serious problems with its Pakistani community. Those guys are fucking nuts. I've met some truly horrible people there. I don't know what it is, really. I chal ....

Comment preview: OK, there's a lot to this that I'm leaving out but the short version is this: Our antagonist is a family that used to be our friend: My dad supports another family in Pakistan from his home village. The husband of the family (one of my dads friends) died a ....

Comment preview: I am from Pakistan and live in Pakistan as well. I went to this school from 2008 to 2011. I have called a few friends who still study there, 3 of them picked up (out of which two of them ran away on time, and one was not there), while 4 have their phones o ....

Comment preview: The scream of a lady, as her flesh was blown off in a bomb blast. So high pitched.. There was also the time a 1000kg bomb blast happened (not the one above) about 15 km away. It sounded like the sky was torn apart.. literally like fabric ripping. I was asl ....

Comment preview: People are also forgetting there is a huge divide between the wealthy and the have-nots. I've lived in Pakistan and there's no shortage of women in all programs at the undergraduate and graduate level, even if the rates drop off a bit steeply for jobs (whi ....

Comment preview: Being a Pakistani, I really hope this happens. People here have become used to hearing stories of violence and terrorism so much, that they've (yes, me included) become pretty desensitized to it all. Hearing about murders and suicide bombings have become a ....

Comment preview: They have citizenship because they're born here. It's not a simple problem, unfortunately, and there's a lot of anti-Muslim sentiment in the UK due to cases like this, compounded by the fact that Muslim communties seem to segregate themselves from the rest ....

Comment preview: Oh man, I bet my hospital story tops your then.. Back story: until the age of 5/6 I lived in Pakistan, where my mom was a doctor in the army. One time she took me in to work with her. It was an army hospital, and given that it was Pakistan, pretty lax and ....

Comment preview: By the way, I live in Pakistan, and as many of you may know, right now it's the month of Ramadan and Muslims are fasting. After opening my fast today, I was having a craving for some good old KFC. Specifically, a Zinger Xtreme (sometimes known as a Zinger ....

Comment preview: Religion is a much more overt part of life over there. I was a young atheist living in Pakistan for a while and would get heavily criticized by my family for not praying five times a day, reading the Quran in front of everyone, wearing hijab, or even tell ....

Comment preview: Years ago, my dad kicked my mom, sisters, and me out of the house and sent us to live in Pakistan with my paternal grandmother. My grandmother had a live-in servant who was around my age (10 years old). We would get into stupid little arguments on a daily ....

Comment preview: Most of the filthy rich here are the major lands owners and they are uneducated. The rising educated middle class despises them but since they are in minority as opposed to the rural uneducated majority, they can't really do anything. I remember reading ab ....

Comment preview: Lived in Pakistan for a bit, was in Islamabad which is quite a bit cleaner and doesnt have as many beggars as the other cities, but they still hung out at traffic lights and markets. I was chilling in a car waiting for somebody outside of a market with my ....

Comment preview: My friend is Pakistani and grew up in the US with extremely strict parents. When we were high school seniors, she was allowed to stay after school at the library to work on a project with me. We finished about half an hour before she was going to be picked ....

Comment preview: Conspiracy Theories: I live in Pakistan and everything is explained by a conspiracy theory. Its so annoying. Electricity isnt working? Its because of a conspiracy by the USA so our children get depression Your child got Polio because you didn't get him vac ....

Comment preview: Something similar happened to a close friend of mine. He got deported to Canada. Below is part of an email he wrote summing up the entire situation to friends and family shortly before his deportation (personal details redacted). It is a terrible, unaccept ....

Comment preview: The only reason there is not a bombing every week in the USA is because of the economic barrier to entry for those affected by the War on Terror. They cannot afford to get here and orchestrate an attack. The US has uplifted 2 countries and bomb a couple mo ....

Comment preview: In everyone's hurry to jerk each other off about how moderate Muslims are the vast majority and how these attacks don't represent the "real," Islam, they miss the point that **moderate Islam is more extreme than the extremists of other religions**. [This]( ....

Comment preview: In everyone's hurry to jerk each other off about how moderate Muslims are the vast majority and how these attacks don't represent the "real," Islam, they miss the point that **moderate Islam is more extreme than the extremists of other religions.** [This] ....