Why would anyone in their right mind go to Pakistan? Straight up dangerous for women, most places are dangerous for men as well.

Sure they have nice mountains, but you have those in much safer places as well.

When someone recommends Pakistan I feel like they’re saying: “Sure, Hell is a bit hot but it has great view”.

Stop watching CNN too much :) Pakistan is perfectly safe option and is a fast-growing economy with a significant IT industry.

I have coworkers from Pakistan, only women who doesn’t wear a headscarf is very rich and lives in gated community. She told me she definitely can’t go outside that gated community or she would be assaulted. YouTube videos display mostly men in the streets. If I can’t go somewhere with my wife the way she is, guess what, I won’t be going there, nor western women should neither.

Pakistan's homicide rate is lower than the US. PK has 3.88 homicides per 100k/year, the US has 4.96.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intention...

Yeah, Pakistan is definitely safer than living in the US (/s). Something tells me the numbers in that table are self reported.

Gilgit-Baltistan and Azad Kashmir seem to be pretty safe

I’ve been to both Pakistan and India and would not recommend Pakistan. You can’t get things you want in Pakistan, it’s dangerous and to be honest besides the food there isn’t anything to do.

I'd not recommend even India - unbearable air pollution, unbearable outdoor temperatures for many months and daily blackouts to start with

What things precisely? Unless you went to a remote village, most cities have tech stuff readily available. Ofcourse, it's nothing like US.

How would Pakistan be for a long-term visit for a woman traveler? I've zoomed around some of the mountainous areas on google maps and as I'm interested in the hiking/mountaineering areas and one thing I've noticed is that there are ZERO photos of female travelers on any of the google images from those areas. Basically anywhere outside of Karachi I am not seeing pictures of women.

Between that and this recent thread on reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/pakistan/comments/pb5l2k/how_can_yo...

I had been ranking it lower on my travel wish-list.

Frankly would not recommend it for solo travel unless the woman in question is a really tough individual with experience in even more difficult developing-nation environments.

Curious about Pakistan. Are you from there? Which cities besides Murree would you recommend?

I am from there. Hunza is a popular place to visit, the internet is not-so-great. Islamabad is awesome if you want balance between awesome internet and mountains.

If you want the best food, go to Karachi.

> If you want the best food, go to Karachi.

Come on man, don't mislead others like this. Everyone here knows you go to Lahore for good food :)

Lahore makes best donkey biryani, sure.

how's the internet in those areas?

I get better/more reliable internet on my phone in India than I do in my condo in Canada some days

This. I moved to Canada from India and was appalled at the mobile internet infrastructure here. It is a ripoff.