wow @ balcony part. and a full burqa? are you serious?
i took a whole batallion of white people (my husband and his family) to lahore this past january. we had to be alert and careful just in case. but we did go out EVERYWHERE. my neighbour back home … it’s a paki guy with a german wife and 3 mixed kids. they go about everywhere. a lot of their work is based in the inner city, and they go their a lot. the wife goes there alone. the eldest daughter also goes there alone. and they are pretty comfortable about it as they speak of it. so i dont really know how big an issue it is. it just feels to me when you’re so far away from the actually fear, it just comes across as way more harsh. i am more scared of all the crap happening down in lahore now than when i was actually living there.