Re: pakistan… safe?
I am sure you are not from Karachi, the mobile phone is one of the first target of street criminals in Karachi, they are usually armed with guns, the only thing they would take is money in Pocket and mobile phone.
We mostly find a safe place when need to make or receive a call, mostly inside the shopping centers or some shops, using mobile phone in the roadside always considered dangerous.
That is the reason it is advice able to hide your mobile phone when you are walking on the street.
In fact one of my cousin always carry two mobiles with the cheap one which he carrys to in the front pocket, In case need to “GIFT” someone, and the expensive one well hidden, but he was unlucky as when he was about to “Gift” someone the cheaper one sudden other started rinnging and he ended up “Gifting” both.