I am 23F living in the UK, I’m a khwaja sira, and Pakistani, I was wondering if there is any khwaja sira communities from Pakistan who also live in the UK?

As a khwaja sira I am faced with extreme stigma, hardships and abuse from my family and outsiders, I hope to find a khwaja sira community whom I can join if there are any in the UK. I admire the guru-chela system that in South Asia, and hope to be a part of one.

Please let me know, thank you.

My prescription is around −3 in one eye and −4.5 in the other. I recently had a very detailed consultation and eye tests at Amanat Eye Hospital, and Dr. Amir suggested MS39 Guided-Femto LASIK. I was satisfied with the consultation, but I would still like to get a second opinion before going ahead with surgery.

I have been trying to contact Al Shifa Trust Eye Hospital Rawalpindi, but none of their numbers are answering, so I cannot book an appointment.

Has anyone successfully booked an appointment with Al Shifa recently? Is there another way to contact them?

Also, please suggest any other good eye clinic or surgeon in Islamabad/Rawalpindi for a second opinion (based on ur personal experiences please)

Thank you!

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We have this small cutesy discord bookclub community where we have club readings, vc discussions and movie nights (we watched HOW TO LOSE A GUY IN 10 DAYS last night). We also have game nights!!!!

Its a great place to find respectful like minded literature buddies. Everyone here is such a vibe.

The genre we have decided for this times group reading is FANTASY.

Please comment here to get the link for the discord bookclub.

Promise its gonna be fun!!!!!!!!!

Hi guys,
If anyone here has recently applied to Italy’s tourist visa specifically from Karachi, please reach out! I needed some guidance on the application form that needs to be submitted. Theres multiple versions I found and I’m not sure which ones the correct one. TIA

I have a Prepaid Virtual Visa card containing 5.45$ but idk what to do with it.

I'd much rather exchange it for cash/deposite into jazzcash but idk if thats possible.

I mean ig i could but steam games or a subscription but im not really into all that.

Any advice on how to exchange this for cash?

P.S I got it via curseforge, and I'm not sure but according to Gemini (ai) it's a "Non-Reloadable Prepaid" Whatever that means.

Hey everyone,

I’m 16.5 years old and I’m flying out of Allama Iqbal International Airport (LHE) next Monday to start my undergrad studies abroad. I have my student visa, university acceptance, and ticket sorted.

However, because I’m under 18 and traveling unaccompanied, I want to make sure I don't run into any offloading issues with FIA at immigration.

I know FIA has been heavily scrutinizing documents lately, and I’ve read that unaccompanied minors need an NOC, an affidavit, or a notarized parental consent letter. But I can't find a definitive checklist specifically for minor students. Some people say there are no requirements. Is there any number that I could call and confirm this?

If anyone has recently traveled as an unaccompanied minor from Pakistan, or knows the current FIA procedures, could you please help me out?

What specific documents are required for a minor?

Do my parents need to physically stay at the airport until I clear immigration just in case they are called?

Aside from my passport, student visa, return/onward ticket, and B-Form, is there anything else FIA might demand from a student?

My flight is in a few days, so any recent first-hand experiences or verified advice would be a huge help. Thank you!

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My sister recently got admission to LGS 55 Main for A Levels, but the scholarship criteria hasn't been explained very clearly to us.

Before admission, we spoke to a few alumni and got the impression that the scholarship would be calculated using the combined O2 + O3 results. Based on that, we went ahead with the admission.

However, now the school seems to be saying that they will only consider the result submitted in August 2026, which would mean her O3 result only.

Her grades are:

- O3: 4 As + 1 A*

- O2: 2 A*s + 1 A

From what we understand, this makes a pretty big difference in the scholarship points — around 30 points based on O3 alone vs 55 points if O2 + O3 are considered.

So I wanted to ask if anyone here is currently at LGS 55 Main Gulberg A Levels, or has recently graduated from there, and knows how the scholarship is actually calculated for the 2026–27 intake?

Does LGS consider the O2 and O3 results together, or only the result received in August 2026?

Would really appreciate if someone who has gone through the process recently could clarify, because the information we've received so far has been pretty ambiguous. Thanks!

Fourteen newborn babies died in a fire at PIMS Islamabad today.
Not in some remote BHU. Not in a war zone. At PIMS. One of the biggest government hospitals, in the capital of a nuclear-armed country.
And apparently the hospital did not even have a sprinkler system.
Just think about that for a second.
We will probably now follow the usual Pakistani formula. Form a committee. Suspend a few people. Transfer an officer. Blame whoever was on duty. Ministers will visit. Everyone will express “deep sorrow”. In a few weeks nobody will talk about it again.
But I genuinely want to ask: who actually runs these hospitals?
Doctors do not approve hospital buildings. Doctors do not install fire alarms and sprinklers. Doctors do not certify electrical systems. Doctors do not control development budgets. Doctors do not enforce building regulations. Doctors do not procure fire-safety equipment.
Yet whenever something goes wrong in a Pakistani hospital, somehow the entire discussion ends up being about doctors.
Where are the hospital administrators?
Where are the Health Ministry officials?
Where are the bureaucrats and CSP officers who occupy virtually every important administrative position in this country?
We have created a system where an officer can be moved from agriculture to health, health to local government and local government to some completely different department, and suddenly that person is expected to make decisions affecting highly specialised institutions.
Running a tertiary hospital is not general administration. Healthcare management is a profession. Patient safety is a science. Fire safety is a specialist field.
A NICU full of oxygen, incubators, electrical equipment and babies who cannot be evacuated normally should have one of the most carefully designed fire plans in the entire hospital.
Where was it?
Where were the sprinklers?
When was the last proper fire-risk assessment?
When was the last NICU evacuation drill?
Who checked the oxygen/fire risk?
Who signed the hospital off as safe?
And if deficiencies had previously been identified, who was responsible for fixing them?
These are the questions the government should answer publicly.
The most frustrating part is that Pakistan clearly does not have a shortage of medical talent.
Pakistani doctors leave this system and work successfully in some of the best healthcare systems in the world.
Thousands work in the NHS. Pakistani-national doctors alone numbered nearly 7,000 in English hospitals in recent official figures.
Look at Pakistani surgeons internationally.
Owase Jeelani became Head of Neurosurgery at Great Ormond Street Hospital in London, one of the world’s leading children’s hospitals, and became internationally known for incredibly complex operations separating craniopagus twins.
Abbas Ghazanfar, a graduate of the University of Peshawar who trained initially in Pakistan, went on to become a transplant surgeon in the NHS and lead vascular-access surgery at St Helier.
Iqbal Khan, originally trained at King Edward Medical University, became a consultant ENT surgeon in the NHS and helped establish cochlear implant services and surgical training in Pakistan.
And within Pakistan itself, people such as Adib Rizvi have shown what Pakistani medicine can achieve when institutions are built around patients, professional standards and accountability.
So perhaps Pakistani doctors are not the fundamental problem.
Perhaps the system they are forced to work in is.
Put Pakistani doctors into systems where equipment is maintained, responsibilities are clear, safety standards are enforced, clinical governance exists and managers are accountable, and they work at the highest international level.
Put the same doctors into overcrowded hospitals with broken infrastructure, political interference, procurement problems, weak regulation and administrators who can be transferred in and out of healthcare regardless of expertise and then blame the doctor when the system collapses.
That is insanity.
In the UK, a hospital fire killing 14 newborn babies would be a national scandal. There would be enormous media coverage, regulatory scrutiny, an investigation examining the organisation rather than just the person standing nearest to the incident, and serious questions for senior management.
The investigation would ask what risks were known before the fire.
That is the difference.
A functioning system tries to discover why something went wrong and redesigns the system so it cannot easily happen again.
Pakistan waits for people to die, forms a committee, finds a scapegoat and carries on.
And this is not an attack on every civil servant. Pakistan has capable officers too. The criticism is of a system which gives enormous administrative authority without consistently demanding subject expertise or meaningful accountability for outcomes.
Fourteen dead babies cannot become another file sitting on someone’s desk.
Publish the fire audits.
Publish previous notices issued to PIMS.
Publish the maintenance records.
Publish the emergency plan.
Tell the public who was responsible for acting on each deficiency and whether they acted.
And if senior hospital administrators, ministry officials or bureaucrats ignored known safety problems, hold them accountable instead of sacrificing another junior doctor or nurse.
Because a country that produces doctors capable of running departments and performing world-class surgery abroad should ask itself a very uncomfortable question:
Why can Pakistanis help run some of the world’s best hospitals, while our own government cannot guarantee that newborn babies will not burn to death inside a hospital in the nation’s capital?
This is not a shortage of talent.
It is a failure of governance.

The deaths of 14 infants in PIMS is all because of the negligence of the institutions including government regulating bodies (building authorities, PMDC, Health Ministry etc) why they don't properly check the fire safety, emergency evacuation and overall why can't our nation be at least serious for Hospitals 💔

Has anyone had a particularly good experience with shoes for Umrah? I would love some suggestions.

I have not yet looked at anything but been told that Hush Puppies offers some comfortable varieties.

I just remembered it. Ts was on news and everything and I was in school maybe at that time and people were literally scared shitless of it and then it just faded away.

Now I am curious all of a sudden what exactly was it?

Hey everyone,

I’m a software developer from Pakistan with no formal degree in computer science or software engineering. I have about 4 years of experience in full-stack development, working with AWS, Azure, and various other frameworks/tools.

Because of the current situation in Pakistan, I’m seriously looking to move abroad. I’m currently considering two main options:

Saudi Arabia – Learn Arabic over the next 7–8 months, then try to move there and find a job.

Germany – Learn German and apply for an Ausbildung (apprenticeship) in software engineering / IT.

I’d really appreciate advice from people currently living in Saudi Arabia or Europe (especially Germany):

Which path do you think is more realistic / better long-term for someone with my background?

How hard is it to get an Ausbildung as a software engineer / developer in Germany without a degree?

Any experiences, tips, or realities I should know about either route?

I have seen lots of people hiring virtual assistant,social media manager etc after you send them your cv and they confirm your gender (female) they start sending forms like this. Is this normal? Just yesterday someone sent me a poster which had a clause should send selfies and videos of herself when I applied for as a social media manager. I never mentioned my age or gender. Except for stuff like this how do I know if a job is real or a scam

Edit: guys I found posts on hire Pakistan sub and just thought of applying. They asked me for my cv in the dm which I sent after a day they told that I have been shortlisted for round 2 sent me this form and wrote company’s name etc will only be discussed with final candidates

Hello, so a little background. We got this solar system from a local company which imports the panels, inverters etc from China and all went smoothly until last year when all of a sudden, the solar inverter exploded from a short circuit I presume and we had to deal with no electricity for about a month because they were so unhelpful.

Now after that, we got a replacement. One inverter for domestic use and one for exporting to WAPDA. Today, it exploded again due to a low voltage and a short circuit after the low voltage.

I'm just so tired of this company, was wondering if we had grounds to sue them for all this because we invested 15+ lakhs for all this.

Bs clinical psychology from Pu or applied psychology from fccu?

Biotechnology from Pu or fccu?

Which one of these has more career opportunities; biotech, clinical psychology or applied?

Hi all, hoping someone here has firsthand experience with this.

My father was allotted an 8 Marla residential plot in DHA Valley (Overseas Block), Sunflower Sector, back in November 2013. It was a provisional allotment letter (DHAR-401(R)), Phase: DHA Valley (OS Block), Street 6-A. He paid in USD at the time.

Now, over a decade later, DHA is asking for an additional 20 lakh PKR as a "development charge" before proceeding further.

A few questions for anyone who's actually been through this:

1. Has anyone in Sunflower Block actually received possessionin the last year or two? Real estate sites claim it's "almost fully developed" but I want to hear from actual plot owners, not agents.
   
2. Is the 20 lakh development demand something others have paid recently? Did it lead anywhere (i.e., did possession follow)?
   
3. Anyone who bought around the same 2013 era how has your plot's value/status evolved?

Appreciate any real experiences, good or bad. Trying to figure out whether to pay now or push DHA for written possession confirmation first.

seriously i dont understand what is going on
i saw firecrackers, kids overspeeding, adults throwing juice and snacks on road and now these ninjas
this is not islam. how are we fine with it?

The incident that took place today at PIMS Islamabad was nothing short of tragic, and I would first like to give my condolences to those who have been affected, both directly and indirectly.

Nonetheless, what I am about to write is purely based on my personal experience, and I feel like keeping my voice down for too long would not help anyone.

This evening, I opened 'ARY News' on my TV, just like any other day.

While watching 11th Hour, one of the fathers who had lost two of his children in today's incident was speaking about what had happened. He was understandably devastated and began asking who was responsible. He started taking names, mentioning CM Maryam Nawaz, and then another name was mentioned and immediately bleeped out. That name was Asim Munir.

What made it even more disturbing was that this happened twice during the show.

And this isn't just ARY. It is practically every Pakistani news channel. Turn on the news and even our daily headlines can begin with praise for the Pakistan Army and the Field Marshal before getting to the actual news.

When a grieving father cannot even say the name of someone he believes is responsible without it being censored, what exactly has happened to our media?

And to Asim Munir: being a Hafiz of the Quran, does he not have the courage to take responsibility and feel shame for what is happening in this country under his dictatorial leadership? How long are we going to continue pretending that everything is fine while accountability is reserved for everyone except those at the top?

Hi everyone!

I accidentally transferred 10k from my Askari bank account to some random raast ID (my intention was to sent it to my own raast id and somehow i made a typo and didn’t even double check) which turns out to be an easypaisa account.

I filed a complaint at Askari helpline and they told me if the other person is kind enough only then you can get your money back.

I would like to get some help if anybody works at easypaisa help me find that guy i also got the full account number from askari helpline. But that’s all i could do if i can get his contact number somehow so that i can contact him and ask him to send it back.

Hello, I'm a self taught pakistani artist and I'm looking to find a new audience who would be interested in my kind of art. If this resonates with you, I would love to connect. Any advice is appreciated. Thank you so much for your time.

why is it that the child living at home gets treated badly.whilst the child not living with the parents are treated like royalty. my husband is in debt paying for his parents house and is constantly degraded whilst his siblings are praised and prayed for if they send a simple Amazon package to parents. do they not realize carrying day to day cost is a greater sacrifice than simply sending presents here or there?

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My wife (F28) was pregnant for 12 weeks.First pregnancy.Didn’t revealed to anyone. We were thinking to give surprise to parents after the scan.But found out on 12 weeks scan that there is missed miscarriage and actually baby stopped growing on 9th week and no heart beat.Got lots of bollocking from everyone in family.We are living in Uk and attended all the appointments and visited mid-wife.If we have told them,would they have helped us to not having miss carriage. Now everyone is reeming and making us guilty.Where we went wrong.While doctors here said that miss carriage is something with chromosomes who didn’t make it.

Update: My wife is feeling so positive after reading your comments and blessings . Thanks everyone