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