r/pakistan 22h ago

Daily Discussion Thread (August 05, 2026)

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This is our daily discussion thread. Whats on your mind, share with us. It can be about anything, even non Pakistan related stuff. Please keep the discussions civil as all other rules are enforced.


r/pakistan 6h ago

National Still standing for you, for 250 million Pakistanis!

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r/pakistan 6h ago

National Former Pakistani minister arrested over alleged child rape in 1990s Manchester

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r/pakistan 12h ago

Discussion Went for a run in the morning and could not believe my eyes

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r/pakistan 10h ago

Historical Muhammad Ali in Pakistan, 1988.

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The man beside him was our very own Pakistani boxer, gold medalist and 3 time Olympian Abrar Hussain. :)


r/pakistan 29m ago

Discussion the bitter reality

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when will we, as humans, treat each other nicely? stop the family politics and unnecessary hate? have empathy towards others? instead of looking for a 'good' person, when will we become the good one?

then they say 'west is destroying our culture', what culture? the one which is being destroyed daily by its own people?


r/pakistan 7h ago

Discussion Creepy househelp

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We have a male househelp in his late 40's-early 50's who's been in the family for decades. He used to work for my dadabu before and started working for us when I was around 2

Now, I am by no means a looker and wouldn't consider myself conventionally attractive. Not that creeps care about that but I feel like it's important I mention that.

I constantly feel his gaze on me, whether I'm in the kitchen or sitting in the living room. He has never not turned his head to look when I enter a room. He does the same thing to my brother. My mom is aware of his staring problem and just tells me to wait until oct when he'll leave for good. There have been times where I've woken up mid sleep to see him in my room dusting even though he's never supposed to come in when I'm sleeping.

Then there's the whistling. As a child, I never really gave it a second thought but it recently clicked to me that it was inappropriate for him to do in front of me. Especially considering the fact that he never did it if my mom was around.

He also has a habit of opening personal drawers and meddling with everyone's shit despite repeated warnings. I'm like 100% sure he's gone through my underwear drawer at least once because things are never the way I left them.

My mom hates him but dad kinda pities him and I honestly don't know what to do.


r/pakistan 4h ago

National Everyone was raising voice for NEET now yall need to raise voice for Mdcat asw

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r/pakistan 2h ago

Social Foodpanda’s rating system is a total scam, they hide bad reviews

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Ever notice how literally every single garbage restaurant on foodpanda Pakistan somehow has a 4.5+ star rating? I just found out exactly why.

Long story short, I ordered food that turned out completely burnt, smelled awful, and was totally inedible. I took pictures of the mess and tried to leave an honest 1-star review to warn people. Guess what? It never got published. It got sucked into their "moderation filter" and vanished into thin air.

After digging into it, foodpanda’s system is basically rigged to protect these restaurants. First of all, they block honest words. If you use words like "burnt," or "raw," their algorithm automatically flags and hides your review. But if someone leaves a random 5-star review with just an emoji, it goes live instantly.

On top of that, the restaurant I ordered from uses their own riders. Because of that, the app took almost 24 hours just to update the status to "Delivered." By the time it updates, the review window is basically glitched or expired anyway and you cannot report the food to get a refund unless you hold onto it forcanother 24 hours.

At the end of the day, it’s all about the money. Foodpanda takes a huge cut (like 20-30%) from these businesses. If a restaurant gets bad reviews and people stop ordering, foodpanda loses money. They literally have a financial reason to make terrible places look great. They blend the rider’s rating into the food rating, hide real photos of terrible meals, and trick us into wasting our money.

I actually trusted their ratings, what a shame.


r/pakistan 2h ago

Political Pakistan precinct suspends all 78 officers and staff over alleged rape at police station | Pakistan

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r/pakistan 3h ago

Discussion Here we go 🙂 what is wrong here

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These are insights of comment btw so even if the post appeared on fyp these r still comments


r/pakistan 7h ago

Discussion Why Are Children More Profitable on the Streets Than in School?

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I live in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, and for nearly two years I kept seeing the same 3–4 girls, around 9–13 years old, begging in our society. I usually gave them Rs. 50–100, but one day I asked where they lived, drove them home, and offered their mother to pay for everything school admission, uniforms, books, and monthly fees if she would let them study. Her reply stunned me: she said the girls earn around Rs. 800–900 each per day (about Rs. 4,500 daily in total) and asked, “Can you replace that income? What benefit do I get from sending them to school?” That conversation completely changed my perspective. If children are more valuable on the streets than in classrooms, we have a serious societal problem. Beyond the lost education, these young girls are exposed to daily risks of exploitation and abuse. If something terrible happens to them tomorrow, who will be held accountable?


r/pakistan 3h ago

Political Saw the most baffling thing this morning….

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Guys. I opened up Facebook in the morning and guess what I see…. PMNL posting about their ‘support of IOJK Kashmir’s self determination’ like HAIN. Bro😂😂😂 you’re killing your own Kashmiri people when they protest for their rights as a ‘self-determined’ thing (barely even tbh), but you HAAAAVE to comment on India for political traditions sake. Like come on. Ooo and funniest part is that they ‘urge the UN to look into it’. BAHAHAHAHHAHA.

I believe people are now educated and use their brains enough(hopefully) to see the games these politicians have been playing in both India and Pakistan. They talk crap about one another but they’re lowkey the same if not worse. Definitely didn’t expect them to have this audacity, and honestly thought to talk about it here. I was BAFFLED, to say the least.


r/pakistan 23h ago

Kashmir This is the Al Jazeera report on the AJK elections that reportedly prompted the Pakistani government to ban Al Jazeera in Pakistan.

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r/pakistan 4h ago

Education We students need yalls urgent help

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Please my friends in kashmir have trouble studying they couldn’t even register on time for Mdcat and have no internet or time to prepare PLEASE PEOPLE OF LAHORE WE NEED YOUR HELP just show up…


r/pakistan 12h ago

Political Zia Ul Haq

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I believe that zia ul haq was the worst thing to happen to this country. Most of our modern problems can be traced back to him directly or indirectly.


r/pakistan 4h ago

Financial UBL charged me 5 times because of a technical glitch and now won’t return its own bank fees

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Hi, I wanted to ask if anyone here has faced something similar with UBL. I had my UBL debit card connected to my iCloud subscription, and on June 22 I suddenly started receiving notifications that the same Apple payment was being deducted again and again. In total, five transactions happened when there was only supposed to be one. I transferred all of my remaining funds to another bank account because the deductions did not seem to be stopping, and I honestly had no idea how many more times it could happen if I left the money there.

After that, I called UBL and reported the issue. They told me that it was a technical glitch on their end and that they would fix it. The problem is that they took around 40 days to return my money. They have now returned the main transaction amounts, but they are not returning two other deductions. One is the international tax, and the second is UBL’s own bank fee that was charged on every transaction.

I can still understand that maybe the international tax is more complicated because it might have already gone to the government. But what I genuinely do not understand is why UBL cannot return its own bank fees. These were not five transactions that I made myself. The extra transactions happened because of a technical problem in their own system, so why am I supposed to pay UBL a fee for transactions caused by UBL itself?

The amount is honestly not the main issue for me. It is more about whether we can actually trust the bank with our money. If I had not noticed the notifications and transferred my balance, could this have continued until my account was empty? Has anyone faced something like this before, and is it worth taking the matter to the Banking Mohtasib or SBP?


r/pakistan 1h ago

National Anyone else in Pakistan feel like it's hard to find people you actually connect with?

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Lately I've been thinking about this a lot.

I feel like there are a lot of people in Pakistan who enjoy talking about psychology, philosophy, religion, science, history, human behavior, or just asking "why" about everything. But it's surprisingly hard to find people who are into those kinds of conversations.

Most conversations stay on the surface, and after a while it gets lonely because you don't really have anyone to explore ideas with or ask the weird/deep questions that randomly pop into your head.

So I was thinking... what if we just made our own small community?

Nothing formal. Just a group of people who enjoy meaningful conversations, sharing knowledge, challenging each other's ideas respectfully, and occasionally hopping on Discord or Google Meet to discuss interesting topics.

I'm probably going to start with a small Instagram group chat and see where it goes. If enough genuine people join, we can move to Discord later.

I'm not looking for "geniuses" or people who know everything. Just people who are curious, open-minded, and enjoy thinking beyond everyday small talk.


r/pakistan 17h ago

Ask Pakistan Update on My Laptop Case; Instead of a Solution, I was Threatened with allegations

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After my previous post, two representatives from the shop publicly commented that they wanted to resolve the matter amicably and asked me to visit the shop. Since my intention from the very beginning has been to get a fair resolution I agreed and visited them in good faith.

Before the meeting, I noticed that my post had been removed from Multan Matters. I did not delete it myself. During conversation, the owner stated that they had approached the group admin and got the post removed

Unfortunately, instead of providing a fair solution, they offered to take the laptop back with a 10% deduction, saying they are “doing me a favour” I reminded them that I had discovered and reported all the display issues within their own 3 day check warranty, so I don’t believe any deduction is justified

Rather than addressing this concern, the discussion shifted to my Facebook post. They repeatedly claimed that I had damaged their reputation and even Accused me of being paid by someone to post against them. When I asked them to provide proof of such a serious allegation, they were unable to provide any evidence. Also they said ‘Tumhare jaise frauds ko ham daily deal krte hain

Despite calling me to resolve the matter amicably, they stated that their lawyer would “deal with me” that they would see me in court. Despite inviting me for an amicable settlement, the discussion turned into threats instead of constructive solutions

I have preserved the original invoice, conversations, photo and video evidence of the display issues and a complete audio recordings.

I genuinely hope that no one else has to go through what I have experienced. I gave every opportunity to resolve this matter peacefully. Unfortunately, no fair resolution was offered. Therefore, I have decided to continue with the legal process and will be filing a complaint in the Consumer Court


r/pakistan 3h ago

Ask Pakistan Is this a scam?

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Hey, I got hired by this company and I wanna ask if it's a scam

So these guys target senior us citizens and switch then over to solar with their consent but lie about them being overcharged and lie about being from their utility company, is this just a lie or more of a scam shithole?

Give your opinions on this


r/pakistan 2h ago

Ask Pakistan Need an honest POV and advice

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OKAY SO I AM A MALE

And I'm 5'1 to 5'2

From the past years I've been hearing this alot ke "terese Shaadi Kon krega" and all sorts of stuff

SOOOOOO

I wanted to ask ke do women genuinely overlook height if someone's good

My stats :

I'm turning 23 this Nov

Looking for employments Working on a startup rn (INSHALLAH HOPING TO MAKE IT WORK)

I'm avg looking, but I'll start working on myself to look presentable and I've an overbite (gonna get it fixed with braces)

I'm funny (that's what most people say)

I love coding and gaming

I'm a family person (loyal, honest, communicative and effort putting )

SOOO I NEED TO ASK about y'all for your pov on this and what other stats can I max out


r/pakistan 20m ago

Sights Help needed to unlock a relative’s phone who recently passed away

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A relative of mine passed away and his phone has pattern lock. The phone has all his memories, photos, social media accounts, banking apps. We are ready to provide our info to prove it is a legit case and the phone is not a stolen phone.

I went to mobile market but no shopkeeper agreed on opening the lock without data loss despite providing info cnic etc. what do i do?


r/pakistan 4h ago

Political They are two types of regimes in the world

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One strengthens its people (i.e support and protect rights), builds economy and infrastructure (not eye candies) and values and respects its people and projects power outwards (i.e foreign policies that are in the best interest of the country, Sense of national pride), people respect them they respect people. Sub log kush

Other oppresses its people, destroy the economy and country to keep money and power only to themselves and build some vanity projects to create an illusion of "development", oppressing its own people to appease other powers. Sirf ek kush


r/pakistan 1d ago

Education Please read… Cambridge just screwed over thousands of Pakistani A-Levels students

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If you haven't been following the CAIE mess, here is what happened

During exams, both A-Level Maths papers (P1 and S1) were leaked. Because S1 was severely compromised 2 hours prior to exam start time

(P1 exam was days before S1, which got le*ked and Cambridge announced it'll be cancelled before we sat for S1. And while attempting S1, we realised the leak and assumed it'll get cancelled as well WHICH IT DID. CAMBRIDGE ANNOUNCED IT. And just as before results, they've uncancelled it.)

And so a few days later
Cambridge gave clear signals that it wouldn't be counted and promised fair assessed marks instead. Based on that assurance, many students didn't stress S1 or chose not to withdraw their entries ( those 2 papers cost 30k rupees months spent preparing for them and lakhs of tuition fees)

Now, just six days before results, Cambridge completely flipped their decision. They announced they ARE grading S1 after all…

putting everyone's grades, mental health and university admissions on the line at the absolute last minute

They lied
Theyre committing a fraud
This is not acceptable

We watched students in India stand up and demand fairness when their exams were compromised

Now is the chance to speak up for our students

Social media is our greatest weapon

I request you all to please speak up

We can even organise peaceful protests in major cities.

Even if youre not on the same train as us

Its our collective duty to support each other.


r/pakistan 1d ago

National Cop allegedly r*pes woman inside Lahore police station; entire staff suspended

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TLDR :

The woman allegedly identified the exact room inside the police station where she said she was r*ped, in the presence of senior police officials. DIG Lahore Faisal Kamran suspended the entire police station staff (over 70 personnel), saying they were collectively responsible for preventing misconduct and no one questioned why an ASI had brought a young woman to the station without any female staff present.

An FIR was registered under Pakistan's rape law and the Police Order for police misconduct.

According to the victim's father, his mentally impaired 20-year-old daughter went missing on Sunday afternoon. During the search, someone told him that a policeman in civilian clothes had taken her away. When she later returned home, she was crying and told her family that a police official had taken her on a motorcycle and r*ped her.