Yaar Firenze,
Trust me Europe seems to be full of illegal Pakis. I was in Romania, and kept bumping into them!!! You can get Paki food anywhere.
On the main point, I remember visiting Karachi in the 90s, and it was a hell hole. Karachi was much better in the noughties, especially the early Musharaf years. A lot of growth in consumer choice, including tv chanels. Although I must admit, all you get on TV are these dreadfull saas bahu dramas. But TV in the 90s was also really rubish, with endlessly long boring dramas with over weight aunties. I remember when I was in Karachi in 93, and my Nani got satelite. The sheer pleasure of watching the Crystal Maze!!! So it was pretty crap them, actually the 90s saw the large scale emigration of professional Pakis, and still crap. So Pakistan is unchanging.