Moving to Pakistan From UK.

eastern11 · August 29, 2014, 2:53am

Re: Moving to Pakistan From UK.

And your wife and kids are ok with this move?

I need some advice and was hoping for some real answers from all of you living in Pakistan.

I have lived almost all my life in UK, but my parents are originally from Pakistan, from Sargodha. I speak decent Urud (not perfect, you could tell I’m from abroad if you heard me speak urdu) and can more or less read Urdu.

My grandparents are still living in a village in Sargodha, Punjab.

I want to move back to Pakistan permanently with my family, obviously I would move back to the village with my grandparents becasue I just prefer the village/farming lifestyle (we have more than 10 acres (kila) of land to work on) and I could probably buy about another 10 kila (acres).

So my question is, how safe will it be for me to move back with my family to my grandparents village?

I have heard of numerous horror stories of children getting kidnapped when people find out a person is from UK and then asking for massive amounts of ransom money to have the child released. I have heard of people from the UK getting robbed and looted becasue people automatically assume they are rich. And the police are all in on the crimes as they get bribed by the criminals. I have heard of people getting their land taken from them unless they have a good network of local tribes people to back them up. And all sorts of other corruption and difficulties for people who are from UK trying to live in Pakistan. So how safe will pakistan be for me and my wife and children if we decide to move there?

Now the thing is I do not have a good network of tribesmen. As is the case with a lot of Pakistani families, al lot my aunties and uncles and relatives that live in our village are sort of like “naraaz” with us or him or them or someone and are jealous and arguing etc. I probably have some danger from my own relatives who may inform someone else to come and rob me and my family. Is that possible, is that how Pakistanis think?

I would really appreciate some advice from you guys in Pakistan who know the situation much better.

Thanks.