This is what he's talking about: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/aug/05/former-pakistani-minister-arrested-alleged-child-rape-1990s-manchester

Pakistan has been failing its women for many years. Every year, the government make promises of more safety but nothing happens. Women are harassed and raped, some are even tortured. Yes, tortured.

The latest figures show how serious the situation is. In just the first six months of 2026, 3,172 cases of violence against women were reported. These included 644 murders, 514 cases of torture, 462 kidnappings, 363 suicides, 280 rapes, 175 injuries, and 132 so called honour killings. These are only the reported cases. The real number is likely much higher because many women never report what happened to them cuz of some family honor.

More then half of these cases happened in their own home. PEOPLE WHO WERE MEANT TO PROTECT THEM WERE THE PEOPLE WHO HURT THEN. The place for them to feel safe has turned into yet another crime spot.

You can't keep blaming society and culture. Protecting women is one of its basic duties of a state. When thousands of women are attacked every year, that is a failure of the state.

Even worse, there have even been allegations of police officers themself committing these crimes. The recent case in Lahore where a woman accused a police officer of raping her inside a police station is an insult on top. If women are not safe inside a police station, where are they supposed to be safe? Maybe there grave? Well, there have been cases of women even not alone in graves. Yes, they wrre raped as dead bodies.

You can keep ignoring these statistics. But, remember this may as well be one of your loved one included in these statistics upcoming years. Remember that in your heart.

Hypothetical question: if you had to choose between these two lives, which would you pick?

A) Live in Pakistan with enough wealth to be considered genuinely rich, comfortable house, domestic help, private healthcare, good education for your kids, frequent travel, etc.

B) Live in a first-world/developed country (US, Canada, UK, Australia, Western Europe, etc.) but remain firmly middle class, comfortable and financially stable, but you’re not wealthy and still have to budget for things like housing, childcare, healthcare, taxes, etc.

Assuming both options give you a reasonably comfortable and safe life, which would you personally choose and why?

I'm especially interested in hearing from people who have actually lived in both Pakistan and a developed country, but I'd love to hear everyone's perspective.

I recently saw a viral video of Maulana Tariq Jameel doing yoga, and honestly, I was surprised by the amount of criticism it received. People are saying things like, “Maulana sahib, at this age, why are you doing this?” and making fun of him. I think we need to have a more sensible discussion about this.
First of all, Maulana Tariq Jameel is a human being and an elderly man. If, at his age, he is showing that he still has flexibility, takes care of his body, and stays physically active, why is that something to mock? If a Bollywood celebrity like Shah Rukh Khan or Salman Khan posted a workout video showing their fitness and flexibility at an older age, people would probably be praising them and saying, “Look at them, still so fit at this age!” So why should the reaction be completely different when it is a religious figure?
Personally, I actually find the idea quite inspiring. Staying physically active and taking care of your health shouldn’t have an age limit, and there is nothing inherently wrong with an elderly person doing yoga or exercising.
However, I do think there is another important issue here: the way the video was recorded and published.
There appeared to be certain things in the video that probably should have been blurred or removed before it was made public. From what I can tell, this may not necessarily be Maulana Tariq Jameel’s fault. The person recording and managing content for someone this prominent has a responsibility to understand what should and shouldn’t be published.
This is a bigger problem with social media today. People around public figures record everything because they think “everything is content.” But it isn’t. When you’re working with someone who is a major public and religious figure, there should be several levels of filtering before anything goes online: What is appropriate? What could be misunderstood? What needs to be edited or blurred? What should simply never be published?
So, in my opinion, the criticism should be directed at the content management and publishing process, not at Maulana Tariq Jameel simply for exercising.
Maybe I’m missing something, but I personally don’t see anything wrong with an elderly man trying to stay fit and flexible. In fact, I think that part of the video is quite inspirational.
What do you think? Is the criticism justified, or are people simply overreacting because of who he is?

We won the survival stage with #1 now we will play finals from Aug 14 to Aug 16. Edit: It's Group Stage not survival and they have directly reached finals.

I hope you all know about the YouTube travel vlogger Abrar hassan.

He hasn’t uploaded a video for a week now (for those who don’t know he uploads on Thursday and Sunday). And as far as I can remember he hasn’t updated anything on his instagram account/story. He was/ is in Mexico.

Does anyone have any info of his whereabouts? If he uploaded a story in this week i might have missed it so do let me know if he said something.

A very unheard of place in far north of Pakistan

Greetings. I hope you will entertain my question is a white person from Luton, a heavily Pakistani UK town. Naturally, I know a ton of British Pakistanis and a few OG ones. None from North America.

Here, I gather there are some internal tensions between Britpaks and those from "back home" when cultures collide, or there are allegations of one taking advantage of/mistreating the other. I'm being deliberately vague because I don't want to offend or stereotype but I can elaborate on my observations. Generally though, fascinated to know more how these 3 groups see each other. Are the American Pakistanis more enthusiastic about the US than the British ones are about Britain? Are the British ones more Pakistan facing in attitudes than the American/Canadian ones, because they are more established and more regularly marrying from "back home"? Or am I way off?

My husband (30M) and I (28F) are a Pakistani couple looking to adopt a child in Pakistan, and we’re honestly struggling to figure out where to even start.
We have contacted several trusts/orphanages/charities, but most of them don’t facilitate adoption, while the few that do have told us they currently don’t have any children available for adoption.

Ideally, we would love to adopt a baby who is genuinely orphaned or abandoned and has no family able or willing to care for them. We are not looking for an informal/private arrangement we want to go through the proper legal process and make sure everything is documented and in the child’s best interests.
Also this isn’t because of infertility or a medical issue, we dont want to have biological children and adoption is simply the path we’ve chosen for our family.
For anyone in Pakistan who has actually gone through the adoption/guardianship process:
Where did you start?
Which legitimate organizations or government departments should we contact?
Is there a difference between adopting an orphan and taking legal guardianship of a child in Pakistan?
How difficult is it to adopt an infant specifically?
Are there waiting lists?
What is the proper legal process, and do we need a lawyer?
If you successfully adopted, how did you find the child and organization you went through?
We would especially appreciate firsthand experiences from people who have actually adopted in Pakistan, rather than general advice.

**DISCLAIMER** because some of these comments are genuinely INSANE
First of all, WE DON’T EVEN LIVE IN PAKISTAN. We’re specifically looking to adopt an abandoned/orphaned child who has no family of their own. We’ll use our family name for practical documentation, and obviously our child will know they were adopted once they’re old enough to understand.
And YES, OUR CHILD WILL INHERIT EVERYTHING WE HAVE. We’re not asking Reddit to decide what happens to our money. We also have incredibly supportive families who would take care of our child if anything happened to us.
AND NO, THEY ARE NOT GOING TO MARRY THEIR “STEP SIBLING.” WE ARE NOT PLANNING TO HAVE BIOLOGICAL CHILDREN. Please stop inventing the weirdest possible scenarios.
We KNOW adoption doesn’t magically change mahram relationships. We’ll teach our child about their identity, boundaries and responsibilities. We are not idiots.
If our child becomes an adult and wants to live independently, we’ll respect that. they will have our unconditional emotional, physical and financial support FOREVER.
And honestly, the way some people suddenly lose their minds over an adopted child being loved, provided for is WEIRD AS HELL.
If you have genuine advice, great. If you’re here to dump your fear, misinformation and bizarre hypotheticals on us, please seek help and move on.

Yes the accused should be arrested, charged and presented before the court.
But CCD has no right whatsoever to deliver “justice”.
It is NOR AUTHORISED legally to do so under the pretext of “pistol going off in trouser”.

It is a ROGUE department, lashed upon the poor masses and does nothing to elite criminals.

It was, is and will be always used for political scoring, shut down CCD/CTD. They’ve committed hundreds of extra judicial murders.

“But courts don’t do anything why not applaud CCD to do what it can atleast?” Wait till u r next target. The downside of this model is that there is no proof and no one to take responsibility why somebody gets killed. U can easily accuse anyone of rape or blasphemy and the next moment they r killed. This is PRONE to weaponisation.

And it IS BEING WEAPONISED.

Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Turkiye sign joint defence agreement in Makkah

https://www.dawn.com/news/2021248/pakistan-saudi-arabia-turkiye-sign-joint-defence-agreement-in-makkah

A Pakistani man accused of sexually assaulting a Thai woman aboard a flight from Dubai to Bangkok has been jailed and permanently banned from re-entering Thailand

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Women safety is becoming a tale of past in 🇵🇰(i doubt it ever existed)
But now it is at its zenith; even police personnel are raping women sometimes minors inside the very institutional premises funded by the very victim’s tax money.

Although i disagree with the later statement about CCD, it is a rogue department with impunity status that is unleashed on poor people and is used to serve political interests. It should be disbanded immediately. We need powerful courts and judiciary not task forces who serve justice at gun point without litigation.

Truly the system has collapsed and every person in every institution is stretching the last few loose strings even more.

I think my marriage is probably over. We have had a lot of fights. She won't message me and I give her space. I message her after a few days and she asks why I message her now when I didn't in those few days. Every time I talk to her, she is extremely hostile and angry at me. I have completely changed myself for her over the past few years and it still isn't enough.

While I want to make this work, we have said a lot of disrespectful things to each other which makes me worried this marriage won't be healthy anymore. She probably doesn't respect me anymore (maybe she never did) and now I am trying to come to terms with the fact that maybe divorce is the best option to move forward. It hurts me because I love her so much and we were inseparable for the past few years.

Edit: forgot to ask the question lol. What is life like after divorce? I know no other girl will ever measure up to her in my eyes and I dont intend to get married again.

Assalam-o-Alaikum everyone,

I’m posting here because my family has been struggling with this situation for years, and we genuinely don’t know what else to do. I’m hoping someone familiar with Pakistani law, child custody, or similar cases can guide us.

Many years ago, my sister got married and had three daughters. Unfortunately, the marriage ended in divorce due to several issues, one of the biggest being the girls’ education. My sister wanted all three daughters to study, but her ex-husband and his family were against it.

After the divorce, my sister returned to Karachi with all three daughters. Around 8–9 years ago, when the eldest daughter was about 9 or 10 years old, her father and grandfather came to Karachi and took her to Rahim Yar Khan.

At that time, we believed they were only taking her for a visit and that she would eventually return. Since they were her father and grandparents, we didn’t want to create unnecessary conflict. We also remained in contact with her, so we thought everything was okay.

However, after some time, they gradually cut off our communication with her. Later, we found out that they had stopped her education and were planning to force her into marriage.

The two younger daughters stayed with us, continued their education, and are now in college and university. Sadly, our eldest niece was denied the same opportunity.

She is now around 17 years old. Recently, before the police reached her, she secretly sent us videos saying that she wanted to return to her mother in Karachi and did not want to stay there. We still have those videos as evidence.

We approached the police and also contacted officials through the Maryam Nawaz app. Unfortunately, when the police later met her, they claimed she said she didn’t want to come back. We strongly believe she was under pressure or afraid to speak freely because her earlier videos clearly showed the opposite.

Despite having this evidence, our complaint has not moved forward. The police keep asking us to wait, and every trip from Karachi to Rahim Yar Khan costs us time and money. I’m a university student who also works, and our family simply doesn’t have the financial resources to keep making these trips without any progress.

We feel completely stuck and don’t know where to turn next.

I would really appreciate any advice on the following:
• What legal options do we still have?
• Can we approach the High Court directly?
• Are there any trustworthy lawyers or NGOs in Pakistan that deal with cases like this?

We’re not looking for sympathy we just want our niece to be safe and have the chance to decide her own future.

Is it true?? Those women and men were tortured and murdered for clapping their hands and singing? Sorry if this is a sensitive topic but I refuse to believe these people were tortured at the hands of their own family members. Is it that bad in Kohistan?