A few pakistani poster here have expressed concern about their own safety when they visited pakistan. Its not terrorism but general violence(like carjacking, robbery, gang violence) that is scary.
Only today was I discussing with my friends that Pakistani cities are a lot safer. In west, even in the smallest of cities you have ghettos and hoods where you'd never be advised to go at any time of the day purely for the fear of your life. Nothing of the sort exists in Pakistani cities (barring Karachi I guess). In Lahore you can go out at 3am in the morning just to eat and/or hangout with your friends without a fear in the world. You can go to any part of the city without ever thinking twice.
Robberies and car-jackings are present there however I'm never actively worried about them in Lahore but I am when I'm in Toronto or Regina or Hamilton or Montreal or Vancouver. I've never witnessed gang violence in Lahore. Not saying that gangs do not exist (although I don't know of any myself) but that they are impotent. Here on the other hand, try taking a walk down-town wearing a purple, red or green (gang colours) shirt after 10pm, if you don't get shot, stabbed or beaten to a pulp, I'd consider you a very lucky man. A couple of other streets are famous for people being shot after loonies and toonies. All of this is just Canada.....US, Britain and France are far worse. The only non-Pakistani cities where I felt as safe as in Lahore were Dubai and Abu Dhabi.
And I know for a fact that Islamabad, Rawalpindi, Faisalabad, Kasur, Abbotabad, Sarghoda and Multan, with regards to all of the above, are just as Lahore. I don't know which city werethose posters from.
Muslim tourism is also a thing these days.
We can for example offer good family packages to Muslim families from the Arab world or even South East Asia visiting our Northern Areas.
From Swat to Gilgit, but facilities have to improve a lot.
Not if luxury hotels then maybe something like these
That's the Serena in Hunza mate. It's a 5-star hotel, doesn't get much luxurious than that.
[QUOTE="khanz, post: 8320606, member: 7135"
yeah I know so many people in karachi who sadly have been robbed at gunpoint and some who have narrowly missed kidnapping and gunfire where as this sort of thing would be shocking or rare in most civilized countries.Gun culture is too much in pakistan.[/QUOTE]
You'd be shocked at how un-surprising and common it is in those 'civilized' countries.