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Country discussed for its extreme urban-rural divide in human development, with cities comparable to European nations and rural areas worse than sub-Saharan Africa.

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"He said gay sex was rampant in his school and was barely even hidden, which I found really hard to believe. Anyway, he was due to be married to a girl that year. I offered him my sympathy, assuming it was against his will, but he didn't get where I was coming from. He said was looking forward to hav"
"He's started going to the mosque with his Pakistani friends. I'm assuming he is the only brother in the mosque with a blonde mullet."
my 15 year old brother is reverting to islam · u/HistorianSweet · ↑733 · 2024-05-04
"He straight-up said, I paid for the best schools, I expected more—like a high-paying, prestigious career, maybe in the U.S. or even back home Pakistan. Instead, my cousin's living in a small Spanish city with a pretty modest job."
My little cousin has basically changed his race · parsi_county · ↑621 · 2024-10-05
"India yesterday downgraded ties with Pakistan, suspending a six-decade old water treaty and closing the only land border crossing between the neighbours. Pakistan's Power Minister Awais Lekhari had called the suspension of the Indus Waters Treaty 'an act of water warfare; a cowardly, illegal move'."
"Right before the (widely understood to be massively rigged) election, his party were stripped of their election symbol (the cricket bat) and were barred from contesting under the party name and weren't allowed to campaign. They responded by making a messenger bot which told you your candidate and th"
You guys should check out what's happening in Pakistan · One_Abbreviations151 · ↑464 · 2024-02-11
"This is bad enough but the top countries they come from Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran, Bangladesh and Syria, are all almost not at war. Why are you even allowed to claim asylum from Pakistan? Bangladesh? On what ground?"
The UK Small Boats/Migrant Hotels thing is so wild · u/MoistTadpoles · ↑457 · 2025-08-21
"I came back one weekend last August to find the house filled with green and white balloons for Pakistani Independence Day (my parents have never done this before, neither of them has even visited Pakistan)."
"I know South Asia and in particular Pakistan get a bad rap on the internet, but I've traveled a lot and think the world's best nature and hiking is in this part of the world, particularly in the northern regions of Pakistan. It isn't as difficult, unsafe, or conservative as one would think and I act"
Spent about a month traveling around Pakistan · u/echopath · ↑415 · 2025-10-21
"It's one of the biggest 'nothing ever happens' geopolitical conflicts of all time"
Don't pay attention to the India/Pakistan stuff · u/No_Marketing4451 · ↑309 · 2025-04-26
"You can take people who have lived for generations in tight knit tribes in rural Pakistan, or nomadic Bedouins from the deserts of western Iraq, bring them to a housing estate in Bradford or an apartment complex in Düsseldorf, leave them there permanently, and everything will be fine."
Are there any countries that get immigration right? · u/D-dog92 · ↑255 · 2025-08-08
"On the war front, hundreds were killed this week in many separate incidents in places such as Syria, Iraq, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Mozambique, South Sudan, Niger, and the Congo."
News of the Week · dubtonn · ↑248 · 2020-08-15
"Between the padlocks on graves to prevent necrophilia, the absurdly high rate of cousin to cousin inbreeding and the insane pedophile shit in Peshawar, it's all making me wonder what the fuck is going on there. Something ain't right!"
How fucked up is Pakistan, really? · DingDongBingBongDing · ↑211 · 2023-04-27
"Pakistan, India, Bangladesh AND Sri Lanka? Bruh, Bangladesh's border's dont even make sense. How are you gonna be surrounded entirely by another country?"
There should be like 30 countries MAX · u/NancyBelowSea · ↑196 · 2023-01-26
"Rural areas surrounding the cities, including in Pubjab, Sindh, and in the provinces of Bolochistan and the Tribal Tracts near Afghanistan, the human development index is below .4, which is worse than a lot of sub Saharan African nations. How is that even possible? Seems like a ticking time bomb."
The urban rural divide in Pakistan is insane · u/False_Fennel_1126 · ↑192 · 2025-05-21
"You often hear about white girls named India but uhhh not Pakistan and it rlly makes u think.."
Name your child Pakistan. · u/RSlatinxgf · ↑172 · 2024-02-17
"They've been doing well economically, I think they were beating out both India and obviously Pakistan in growth."
Situation in Bangladesh right now is pretty fucked. · u/-ItsARough1- · ↑170 · 2024-07-31
"Pakistan, 1967"
Ladies of NatGeo · blahblah-lala0 · ↑141 · 2023-09-17
"Last night at the club, there was this guy from Pakistan. He was short, bald and kind of fat and he spoke broken English but I found a great deal of warmth in him and in his smile. So I started talking to him in Urdu (i speak urdu)"
Witnessed an instance of lookism last night and it made me very sad · u/CautiousPlatypusBB · ↑132 · 2025-02-09
"Is this turning into a regional war? Will Israel drag the U.S. back into a war in the Middle East?"
Pakistan Vs. Iran · u/LastOccasion2662 · ↑103 · 2024-01-18
"Anwar Jalal Shemza was already an established artist in Pakistan, when he arrived in Britain in the 1950s to study at the Slade."
Anwar Jalal Shemza (Pakistani, b.1928) · u/asiwasmovingahead_ · ↑102 · 2025-11-11
"The CIA organised a fake vaccination programme in the town where it believed Osama bin Laden was hiding in an elaborate attempt to obtain DNA from the fugitive al-Qaida leader's family, a Guardian investigation has found. As part of extensive preparations for the raid that killed Bin Laden in May, C"
What are some interesting lesser-known CIA operations? · u/sushisteel · ↑90 · 2023-03-31
"https://www.economist.com/asia/2023/04/02/global-warming-is-killing-indians-and-pakistanis"
Is concern about 'extreme wet bulb events' justified or not? · u/wild-surmise · ↑77 · 2024-07-08
"And liveability wise, both India and Pakistan have insanely high rates of incest while Bangladesh does not. Ind and Pak have the highest open defecation rates in the world, Bangladesh's rate is almost zero. Ind and Pak have life expectancies in the 60s, Bangladesh is 75."
"You guys are going to irony poison people into voting for her and then we're gonna have another narcissistic new age boomer and she's gonna to like bomb Pakistan for being anti-Yoga."
Amber weighs in on Marianne Williamson on the second last Chapo · u/alexandrawallace69 · ↑73 · 2019-07-14
"im now convinced the indian state machinery's fear of pakistan is just unleashing really hot dudes onto the broader society."
Pakistani grindr is fire · u/DelendaEstBataclan · ↑63 · 2025-09-19
"When I was 13 I saved up 2000 CAD which I sent to an impoverished Catholic woman in Pakistan. What I didn't realize was that was nearly triple her income, which she made scrubbing floors and cleaning gutters. She spent it on sending her eldest son to be a migrant worker in the UAE and putting her yo"
"He has a degree in civil engineering from Pakistan, but works as a warehouse supervisor to avoid non-related women"
This dude at the mosque lives...an interesting life · UxiResearcher21 · ↑57 · 2023-10-26
"Iran seized a Korean (South) boat and started enriching Uranium, and another massacre also happened in nearby Pakistan."
The News of the Week · u/dubtonn · ↑54 · 2021-01-07
"So I'm a 21-year-old British Pakistani and I basically divide my time between university and home, currently, I'm back at home for the summer vacation... The only time she seems to be happy is when she's on the phone with her family in Pakistan or the few friends she has in the UK (other Pakistani a"
"In my home country(Pakistan), quite contrary to the western stereotype of the champagne socialist, communists are more often associated with gangsters and nationalists. Most Communist parties in my country were started by upper-middle-class academics in universities during the 60s and 70s. but almos"
"It kickstarted the Bangladesh Liberation War and Genocide, of which the USSR supported BD and India and Nixon supported Pakistan."
Not enough people talk about the Bhola cyclone · u/eng901 · ↑29 · 2024-09-04
"Sadly only country but seeing a lot of Canada and Pakistan. Is it over? Has it just begun?"
"Seeing all the beef online between brown people (well mostly Indians and Pakistanis) has caused me to do more research on the region"
"Sadly only country but seeing a lot of Canada and Pakistan."
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