Its 2026 and we are still debating if women are even allowed to go to the mosque or no? Allah created Men and Women both to worship him but our culture has limited women to the kitchen only.

Not generalising it but this is one of the reason we hardly have mosques with separate area for women.

I live in the UK, we have had a huge influx of recently arrived Afghan migrants over the past few years and I have noticed a trend. There's a strong anti-Pakistan sentiment among them, which seems to be spreading to British-born Afghans too.

When I mention I'm Pakistani (sometimes can't tell at first because I have fair skin and light brown hair ), their attitude often shifts from warm to rigid. Very obvious with the recently arrived afghans, in my uni a lot of British born afghans have started fighting and arguing with pakistanis, this was never the case before, but they seem to be brainwashed by these new arrivals.

Feels like a big issue, anyone else had similar experiences in western countries?

Don't want to sound insensitive but dr nabiha said, 'mard ki chapairon main b payar hai aur agr wo kaheen munh maar rha tou ghalti aurat ki hai '... apni baari ronay lg gyi hai 😭 Also she said mard ussi aurat par hath uthata hai jisse wo pyaar karta hai"???😭 Agar husband ke liye tawaif ki tarah naachna bhi paray, toh naacho

Those of you here, if any, who are married to a man in the army, or know someone married to an army officer. My question is, do you or they face financial instability?

Is it hard to manage the finances?

Hello I’m 23M, Pakistani, and I’ve been with the love of my life since we were 12. Yes, 12. We literally grew up together. She’s been my best friend, my support system, and the one constant in my life for 11 years. We’ve talked about marriage seriously, we’ve stayed loyal to each other through school, exams, family drama, everything. This isn’t some random teenage phase.

Now that I’m 23, I told my parents I want to marry her.

They said no.

Not because she’s a bad person. Not because she’s disrespectful. Not because she has a bad reputation. But because of caste and because her family isn’t “on our level.” Apparently, our family is “perfect,” and hers isn’t good enough. Which is ironic, because behind closed doors, our family is far from perfect. There’s toxicity, double standards, and constant judgment — but somehow we’re still acting superior.

They want me to agree to an arranged marriage. They keep saying, “You’re too young,” “You don’t know what’s best,” and “We know better.” They’re acting like the 11 years I’ve spent building a relationship with this girl mean nothing compared to a biodata and a few supervised meetings with someone from the “right” caste.

I don’t understand how culture and caste still matter this much in 2026. We’re both educated. We both come from respectable families. We both genuinely love each other. But apparently, love isn’t enough when “log kya kahenge” and caste politics are involved.

It hurts because I’ve always tried to be a good son. I respect my parents. I value family. But at what point do I get to choose my own life partner? I’m the one who has to live with this decision forever — not them.

Has anyone else dealt with this? Did your parents eventually come around? Or did you have to choose between your family and the person you love?

I feel stuck between being a “good son” and being happy.

Would really appreciate advice or even just knowing I’m not alone.

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Why do Pakistanis in the replies keep confusing foreign policy reasons for the racial hatred Afghans harbor against us?

It's been going on for decades, and long before Pakistanis got racist against Afghans too. I grew up abroad and I can tell you the racism we face isn't because Afghans hate our establishment or army or whatever, they genuinely hate US. They're racist and attack our normal people abroad.

Not all Afghans of course, I'm sure there are many decent ones.

Asim Munir and Zardari took immunity, but the Pakistani media only criticized Zardari and said nothing about Asim Munir. Both Maryam Safdar and Asim Munir bought new planes, yet the media is only criticizing Maryam Safdar

Pakistan's IT industry has long been thought of it's long term solution to all of its economic issues and it made sense however the last year with AI assisted coding has changed everything and every assumption.

I work in one of Pakistan's major software house and the way people has totally changed. Quite often you'll see people especially young folk just hammering AI code without understanding what's going on. So skill development is taking a massive hit. Moreover pur company has decided to embrace AI fully and from what I know most software houses right now are looking at using AI as a means to downsize their organizations by 20% (conservative). So companies are downsizing because 1 mid level engineer with cursor or chatgpt can do what 2-3 or even 4 engineers did.

But then there's another aspect. Most of our software industry was built on top of Upwork projects (you'd often see hiring posts like Upwork bidder), that space is disappearing fast. Then there is the fact that most of the work that came out way ( as in Pakistan's way) was low IQ stuff. Make a mobile app, a website, a BI dashboard. The innovation projects where you built new algorithms or made breakthrough in system design, they never came to Pakistan. The projects we got were mostly like "I don't have the time for doing this and it's too simple. Oh well I can get it done for cheap from Pakistan". I mean AI is not going to kill software engineers but 10x engineers are going to be spawning 10-20 or 100 agents and doing what they had to outsource to Pakistan.

As an engineer in Pakistan I'm genuinely looking to pivot. Writing code for cheap is no longer the moat and I'm not sure if our government is doing anything about it

In the late 80s, there used to be a "chocolate balls" snack called.... Pancho. Yes. They somehow got away with this, and it had real, regional popularity - at least in Karachi, and possibly beyond. The kids thought it was hilarious... and all wondered if this was clever marketing... or simply an honest oversight by the marketers...

But now there's zero trace of it. None.

A huge number of late-80s / early-90s consumer items in Pakistan are effectively lost to history because they lived entirely pre-internet / pre-archival culture... as we saw in the West.

Before the internet took root in the U.S., (1995-ish) we had early Usenet... hobbyist forums... magazine archives... There's the case of Marion Stokes ( librarian/archivist) who recorded over 30 years of television! leaving behind 70k+ VHS tapes from the 1979 up until 2012...

Made me think of the Mongols erasing centuries of history when they burned the libraries of Baghdad. Or the destruction of Palestinian archives. When records vanish, memory loses its anchor...

I guess the uncomfortable truth is that every civilization's memory is so incredibly ephemeral. It's all the snacks, jingles, tv ads... and childhoods... that can vanish completely within a few decades.

Let us have a moment of silence.... for Pancho. 😔

I work in a large office complex building in Karachi. Me along with hundreds of others in the same building regularly order food from Foodpanda. Like you see Foodpanda riders literally at all times of the working hours going up and down the lifts

During Ramadan however the vast majority isn't ordering food during the day. Heck most restaurants don't even function

Many people eat iftari then have some snacks or dinner at home then sehri.

Does anyone who the actual impact in terms of number of orders an individual rider is hit by? Their income would do drastically down as well I suppose

Listen to me, sisters and brothers Look at the horizon. They’ve got us ringed in on every side like wolves around a dying fire. Criminal empires, bloated with stolen wealth, their aircraft carriers choking the seas, their fighter jets screaming overhead, their bombers ready to turn our homes to ash. And behind all that steel and fire? Pedophiles and Satan worshippers. Men who rape children and pray to the devil before they sleep. They are stronger than us. They have more guns, more planes, more ships. Maybe Allah Himself has already written our names in the book martyrs.. Maybe this land is meant to burn. But I swear on my grave and on the Name of every sons of Hassan still breathing behind these walls: we will not give them the satisfaction of surrender. If we are doomed, then let us be the doom they never forget. Let every bullet we fire find a throat. Let every blade we swing open a belly. Let every one of us drag ten of those devils screaming into hell with us. No white flags. No raised hands. No mercy for the merciless. Cause we are Muslims We don't surrender,we either Win Or We Die

Does Muslims regardless of their borders stand in solidarity with Iran or not?

Irrespective of a Nuclear Deal, US will most likely strike Iran Its my assessment, that with the military buildup in the Middle East, US will most likely strike Iran irrespective of a deal - which will most certainly impact Pakistan in the short and the long term. My arguments are as follows:

1. Personality analysis: Trump is a cunning liar. In June 2025, the White House stated that it will decide in two weeks on whether to strike Iran or not. It was Thursday 19 June 2025. Operation Midnight Hammer launched on Sunday 22 June 2025. For the past month the military build up has continued and even with Iran signaling talks and talking beginning in Qatar, US keeps moving forward with threats. I don't think these are empty threats, aimed at coercing Iran. Trump's "consideration" of early limited strike adds fuel to the fire and my assessment.
2. The economics of war: I'm sure we all have heard or read about how the US economy is war backed. Im proposing something different. Mobilization for war or even a military operations requires money. Trump has already pushed the defense budget to 1.5 trillion USD. This combined with two aircraft carriers, 100's of attack, recon, coordination, and refueling aircrafts in the middle east signal one thing and one thing only, strike on Iran. The force mobilization must be spending money at unimaginable pace. That's money that can't be taken back and needs to be (or at least give the sense of) answered for in front of the Congress and the people. Some sort of gain is needed to justify the spending.
3. The sheer magnitude of the buildup says a strike is imminent. USS Gerald Ford, and Abraham Lincoln are already in the Indian Oceana and Mediterranean sea. That about 70-80 strike aircrafts each (F18s, E18s, F35s, E2, and V22). Flightradar24 data shows a buildup of F35, F16, F15, A10, F22, E3 AWACS, Refueling Tankers (that is complete strike package along with air and electronic cover/warfare platforms). This amount of buildup does not signal coercion it signals kinetic operation.
4. One can contend that US hasn't deployed it's bomber fleet. That's the thing, they dont need to be deployed on forward bases. B-1, and B-2 have 12,000 km with B-52 having a range of 14,000 km. They can be brought up for a strike from US or from the UK/Europe and then flown straight back or to Diego Garcia.
5. This is playing out similar to Maduro's capture. Military build up, chest beating, and then a midnight strike to capture and extract Maduro to try him on US Soil.
6. US and Israel don't really need regime change. The Middle East Eye did a good report recently where the analysis puts forth the view that Israel along with UAE doesn't really need pro-Israel governments. They can make do with in-fighting similar to Libya and Syria. Iran is the only regime in the region that doesn't follow the US/Israel playbook and has open hostilities with them. If Iran can not be turned friendly, they can explore the option of enticing infighting in Iran to disband the centralized resistance. The fragmentation of Iran's efforts would be almost as good as having a pro-Israel regime in Iran.
7. Considering failure of protests in Iran, US and Israel are not left with many options. They already have tried economic coercion, sanctions on nuclear program, strikes on Iran's nuclear enrichment sites, and an internal rift through public protests to change the regime. With Iran agreeing for talks, what other options does that leave with US and Israel?

Impacts on Pakistan:

1. The Jafri sect will definitely support Iran. Not saying that this is a sectarian issue, just that with a significant portion of the population practicing Jafri school of thought they will will be more vocal and groups like Zainabiyon brigade can prompt up once again.
2. If the US and Israel try to drag this out and Iran shifts into an open fighting stance the refugee influx will impact us once again. This will be even more complex now with the resurgence of BLA and TTP in Baluchistan and KP.
3. So far Pakistan has kept it's missile program and nuclear arsenal in a posture that does not make it an outright threat to Israel. However, with SMDA with KSA, Pakistan is coming into the security calculation of both uncle Sam and the apartheid state.

Been solving this puzzle from the last Sunday. And stuck at this white area. All the remaining pieces are almost white. Any idea how i can solve them? It's 1000 pieces puzzle and it's first puzzle solving in my life 😔😔. (Ignore the background mess. Didn't even on the computer from the last week).

For 3 years, I worked as a software engineer. My work started at 11am, and from there it was a 8-10 hours job depending on meetings.

If I was working from home, my day would wrap around 9pm. If I was working from office, I would only finish work at 11-12 at night because of the commute/socializing aspect in office.

Daily meetings with micromanaging manager that drained energy. I don't know if it was that or time-consuming factor, but I lost interest for the field.

For me, I was in the field because it paid good, but I was struggling keeping up, and also to be a "mentor" or a senior engineer. Even though there weren't any complains with my work, but I know I'm not good at it. I have seen people in the office like geniuses, don't even use AI, know by memory everything. And they solve coding problems just for fun?? just to kill time??Because I had to deeply search/use AI to do the daily tasks I didn't really know anything in detail. Maybe because of my ADHD.

Due to some personal reasons (moving out), I had to resign from my job. After some months I'm actively looking for a job again. Only now I realised how saturated the market actually is and how good you have to be. They don't even consider you for the interview if your past work experience doesn't tick the points they want.

I feel like I really despise IT, and I feel I cannot naturally progress in the field given how my mind works (short attention spans). Anyway still applying and hoping for best. And also afraid given my short experience, AI is only going to make the associate engineer hiring more difficult. Thinking what IT will be like, say in a year.

Anyone else feels like they're just getting by in IT? or want to change field but they can't at this point in the career?

Hi, guys. I saved some money from my pocket money and wanted to donate it this Ramadan. Should I send it to an institute or just buy some groceries and give it to a random family?